public health
137
2.8
- noun
- /ˈpʌblɪk hɛlθ/
- Specialized
:
salud pública
- The federal government may also regulate public health through the power to spend.
- public health agencies
- public health scientists
- local public health
We have no effective public health system nationwide either.
- We have no effective public health system nationwide either.
- Some issues cry out, you know, public health issues like gun violence.
- She says the benefit to public health is nothing.
- I mean, we are coming off of the biggest public health crisis in our lifetime.
- I'm, I'm more thinking of it from like a public health standpoint.
- And also even the government's own advice, the Public Health England advice about nutrition.
- And it's kind of hard to to make that link between public health and a warmer earth.
- And it became a major public health issue.
- Luckily, we were able to control that by public health measures.
Examples
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Vaccines are one of the most cost effective ways of, of generating public health results.
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It's the only public health facility in the area, and your company just bought it.
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So the first Test is this is the worst public health crisis for a generation.
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And it became a major public health issue.
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And there is much, much more on public health that we can do, and we will.
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So let's look at what those public health measures were.
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I mean, we are coming off of the biggest public health crisis in our lifetime.
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So when were local directors of public health informed?
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Protecting and promoting farmworker health is, therefore, of great economic and public health importance.
Academic text (2011) -
The government implemented new policies to improve public health in the community.
How Healthy
82
1.0
- Specialized
137
2.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'public' (the population or community) + 'health' (state of being free from illness) yields 'health of the population,' which a B1 learner who knows both words can infer. This noun–noun compounding is a common, literal pattern in English and other languages (e.g., salud pública, santé publique), so the expression is transparent.
Etymology
Public health comes from the simple idea that public means 'for the people' and health means 'being healthy'. A useful image is towns long ago where town leaders set up clean water, sewers and vaccination programs to protect everyone's health. That's why public health now means 'the health of the whole community', usually looked after by governments and services.