What is Public Health?
Public health is the practice of preventing disease, injury, and disability; protecting people from disease outbreaks and public health threats; and promoting policies, practices, and conditions that support good health. With a primary focus on wellness and prevention, public health is a cost-effective means of addressing health at a population level, often well before individual problems become acute.
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Where Can I Learn More?
- APHA. The American Public Health Association (APHA) created a short film to outline how public health is vital to creating the healthiest nation in one generation.
- NACCHO. The National Association Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) created a short film about the vital and heroic role of public health.
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