Public Health
Public health is the science and arts of— 1) Preventive diseases 2) Prolonging lifespan 3) Promoting health and efficiency through organized community efforts for— i) the sanitation of the environment. ii) the control of communicable diseases iii) the education of the individual in personal hygiene iv) the organization of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis and preventive treatment of disease. v)the developments of the social machinery to ensure everyone a standard of living for maintenance of health.
A recent definition of public health, which meets the criteria of modern public health is as follows— “Public health is the planning carrying out an evolution of health measures and system services that both maintain and improve the health of a population group, prevent and control diseases within the population group”.
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