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public health

NOUN
community health
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“For people who are there, I’m telling people: ‘Get your flu shot ASAP,’” said Celine Gounder, an infectious-disease doctor and editor at large for public health at KFF Health News.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

Yet, even as a journalist who covers public health, every time I hear about a case of “the plague,” I get a little shiver down the spine.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

Maternal mortality has become widely recognized as an urgent public health problem in the United States, although it took decades for the issue to receive sustained attention.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

Russia's public health agency, Rospotrebnadzor, said Wednesday that there was no risk of an epidemic among the wider public.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

In public health projects in difficult locales, theory often prevails over practice.

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




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