Concept information
Preferred term
Public Health
Type
-
Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- Accidents
- Consumer Product Safety
- Disease Eradication
- Disease Outbreaks
- Disease Transmission, Infectious
- Drug Contamination
- Emergencies
- Endemic Diseases
- Environmental Microbiology
- Environmental Pollution
- Epidemiologic Factors
- Epidemiologic Measurements
- Epidemiologic Methods
- Epidemiology
- Equipment Contamination
- Equipment Reuse
- Food Quality
- Hygiene
- Legal Epidemiology
- Preventive Medicine
- Public Health Practice
- Radiologic Health
Entry terms
- Community Health
- Health, Community
Note
- specialty; do not confuse with NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS
Scope note
- Branch of medicine concerned with the prevention and control of disease and disability, and the promotion of physical and mental health of the population on the international, national, state, or municipal level.
In other languages
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Finnish
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kansanterveystiede
-
Swedish
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011634
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