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public health

public health noun: the science and practice of community hygiene, which includes preventive healthcare, health education, sanitation and environmental safety.

Noun

public health (uncountable)

  1. The science and practice of community hygiene, which includes preventive healthcare, health education, sanitation and environmental safety.
    • Every town the size of Maycomb had families like the Ewells. No economic fluctuations changed their status—people like the Ewells lived as guests of the county in prosperity as well as in the depths of a depression. No truant officers could keep their numerous offspring in school; no public health...1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC
    • My parents are both in public health now. They both work at the Tucson AIDS Project. I've got a sister who's a nurse, another one who works in a hospital, […]1989 April 15, Eileen Bolinsky, Wendy Bennet-Alder, “I'm Slowly Getting To The Anger”, in Gay Community News, page 9

public health meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Arabic and Malay

public health in Tamil

பொதுநலம், பொதுநல்வாழ்வு, மக்கள் நல்வாழ்வு, பொதுச் சுகாதாரம், மனித நலம்

public health in Kannada

ಜನಾರೋಗ್ಯ

public health in Arabic

science
الصِّحَّة العَامَّة

public health in Malay

science
kesihatan awam
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public health in Indonesian
kesehatan masyarakat
public health in Myanmar
လူထုကျန်းမာရေး luhtu.kyan:mare:, ပြည်သူ့ကျန်းမာရေး pranysu.kyan:mare:

Examples of public health in a sentence

  • No truant officers could keep their numerous offspring in school; no public health officer could free them from congenital defects, various worms, and the diseases indigenous to filthy surroundings.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
  • Instead, it was treated as a menace to public health and the economy.2025 September 11, Kate Marvel, “‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster”, in The Guardian:

Words formed from public health

Questions about public health

What does public health mean?
Public health means the science and practice of community hygiene, which includes preventive healthcare, health education, sanitation and environmental safety.
What is public health in Tamil?
Public health in Tamil is பொதுநலம், பொதுநல்வாழ்வு, மக்கள் நல்வாழ்வு. See Public health meaning in Tamil.
How do you use public health in a sentence?
No truant officers could keep their numerous offspring in school; no public health officer could free them from congenital defects, various worms, and the diseases indigenous to filthy surroundings.
What part of speech is public health?
Public health is a noun.

Words near public health in the dictionary

  1. Public Friend
  2. Public Friends
  3. public funds
  4. public good
  5. public goods
  6. public health
  7. public health funeral
  8. public health funerals
  9. Public Health Service
  10. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps
  11. public hearing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: public health (page history and authors); public health (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Public health (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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