What is Public Health?

What is public health? Public health promotes and protects the health of all people and their communities. This science-based, evidence-backed field strives to give everyone a safe place to live, learn, work and play.   Why is public health important? Public health improves our quality of life, helps children thrive, reduces human suffering and saves […]

Whats Public Health

Winslow 1920 Definition of Public Health Winslow  defines Public health as the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health and efficiency through organized community effort for the sanitation of the environment, the control of communicable infections, the education of the individual in personal hygiene, the organization of medical and nursing services […]