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public health

NOUN
community health
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As populations age, preventing falls and fractures remains an important public health goal worldwide.

From Science Daily • Jun. 15, 2026

Anyone who may have been exposed to measles should first determine whether they have been vaccinated against measles by checking their immunization records, the public health department advised.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2026

Aid returning to Ituri with Ebola-specific funding would be more effective if public health aid simply hadn’t left in the first place.

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026

Transparency, particularly the “radical transparency” that this administration has promised, requires a clear accounting of who made these decisions, what evidence was considered and why longstanding public health approaches were changed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

At the Harvard School of Public Health, Farmer had gotten used to hearing that public health problems should be solved with “appropriate technology.”

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French




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