Public Health

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.

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Tree Number(s): H02.403.720, N01.400.550, N06.850

MeSH Unique ID: D011634

Entry Terms:

• Health, Public
• Community Health
• Health, Community
• Environment, Preventive Medicine and Public Health
• Environment, Preventive Medicine and Public Health

See Also:

• Preventive Medicine
• Social Medicine
• Zoonoses

All MeSH Categories
Disciplines and Occupations Category
Health Occupations
Medicine
Public Health
Epidemiology
Molecular Epidemiology
Pharmacoepidemiology
Preventive Medicine
Environmental Medicine
Occupational Medicine
Preventive Psychiatry

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Health Care Category
Population Characteristics
Health
Public Health

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Health Care Category
Environment and Public Health
Public Health
Accidents
Accident Prevention +
Accidental Falls
Accidents, Aviation
Accidents, Home
Accidents, Occupational
Accidents, Traffic
Biohazard Release +
Chemical Hazard Release +
Drowning +
Radioactive Hazard Release +
Consumer Product Safety
Device Approval +
Product Recalls and Withdrawals +
Disease Eradication
Mass Drug Administration
Disease Outbreaks
Disease Hotspot
Epidemics +
Space-Time Clustering
Disease Transmission, Infectious
Basic Reproduction Number
Disease Vectors +
Infectious Disease Incubation Period
Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional
Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient
Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical
Drug Contamination
Emergencies
Endemic Diseases
Environmental Medicine
Environmental Microbiology
Air Microbiology
Food Microbiology
Soil Microbiology
Water Microbiology
Environmental Pollution
Air Pollution +
Biofouling
Body Burden +
Environmental Exposure +
Environmental Restoration and Remediation +
Food Contamination +
Light Pollution
Noise +
Petroleum Pollution
Traffic-Related Pollution
Waste Products +
Water Pollution +
Epidemiologic Factors
Age Factors +
Bias +
Causality +
Comorbidity +
Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic
Effect Modifier, Epidemiologic +
Reproductive History +
Serial Infection Interval
Sex Factors
Syndemic
Epidemiologic Measurements
Biometry +
Chemometrics
Demography +
Nutrition Assessment
Nutrition Surveys +
Pharmacovigilance
Risk Assessment +
Epidemiologic Methods
Carrier State
Chain of Infection +
Contact Tracing
Data Collection +
Disease Notification
Epidemiologic Research Design +
Epidemiologic Study Characteristics +
Epidemiological Monitoring +
Molecular Epidemiology +
Sentinel Surveillance
Statistics as Topic +
Treatment Switching
Equipment Contamination
Biofouling
Equipment Reuse
Food Quality
Food Safety +
Nutritive Value +
Health Transition
Hygiene
Hand Hygiene +
Military Hygiene
Legal Epidemiology
Patient Harm
Public Health Practice
Communicable Disease Control +
Decontamination
Environmental Monitoring +
Mass Screening +
Medical Countermeasures
Population Surveillance +
Primary Prevention +
Quaternary Prevention
Secondary Prevention
Tertiary Prevention
Radiologic Health
Air Pollution, Radioactive
Food Contamination, Radioactive
Radiation Dosage +
Radiation Effects +
Radiation Genetics
Radiation Monitoring +
Radiation Protection
Radioactive Fallout
Radioactive Waste
Water Pollution, Radioactive
Sanitation
Sanitary Engineering +