Public health/Definition

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Public health [r]: 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

This definition is at least in part based on: Anonymous (2024), Public health (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.