What is Public Health?
Public health is the science of preventing disease and promoting the health of communities. It works to prevent disease and injury and makes our homes, schools, workplaces, and neighborhoods safer and healthier.
Public health is all around us
Some of the things that things represent public health in our world
The clean air we breathe
The clean water we drink
Sidewalks to keep us safe
Vaccinations
Health education
Access to healthy food
Safe workplaces
Health-based policy
Public health works to understand the root causes of disease and injury and develops strategies to prevent them.
Public health is a collaborative and diverse field that attracts people from behavioral and social science, environmental science, math and statistics, laboratory science, and policy development.
Public health is the people who work tirelessly to make all these things possible.