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public health

science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals
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public health

Summary

public health is an academic discipline[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of academic_discipline entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,585 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • public health's instance of is recorded as academic discipline[3].
  • public health's instance of is recorded as work[4].
  • public health is a type of health sciences[5].
  • public health is a type of social science[6].
  • public health's Commons category is recorded as Public health[7].
  • public health's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Public health[8].
  • public health's facet of is recorded as risk management[9].
  • public health's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as healthcare:speciality=community[10].
  • public health's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[11].
  • public health's topic has template is recorded as Template:Public health[12].
  • public health's topic has template is recorded as Template:Public health sidebar[13].
  • public health's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C17039[14].
  • public health's studied by is recorded as health economics[15].
  • public health's exact match is recorded as https://schema.org/PublicHealth[16].
  • public health's exact match is recorded as http://id.cabi.org/cabt/97906[17].
  • public health's exact match is recorded as https://op.europa.eu/web/eu-vocabularies/concept/-/resource?uri=http://data.europa.eu/bkc/015.04.01.0850[18].
  • public health's practiced by is recorded as public health scientist[19].
  • public health's practiced by is recorded as public health physician[20].
  • public health's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Zika Corpus[21].
  • public health's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject COVID-19[22].
  • public health's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[23].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include academic discipline[3] and work[4]. Recorded subclass of include health sciences[5] and social science[6].

Why It Matters

public health ranks in the top 7% of academic_discipline entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,585 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 48 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

Related Entities

Australian Institute of Health and Wellness Barcelona Institute for Global Health Bibhash Nath Center for American Indian and Rural Health Equity Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Charles D. Flagle Dr. Tomás Perón Biological Institute Federal Office of Public Health Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute Girona Biomedical Research Institute Hans Rosling health health policy health sciences Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute Indiana University School of Medicine - South Bend Campus Institut de Recerca Sant Pau Institut Pasteur de Madagascar Marcelo F. C. Gomes Martine De Bruijne Pere Virgili Institute preventive medicine public health technology risk management Saint-Petersburg Pasteur Institute social science South Texas Diabetes & Obesity Institute Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Tonny J Oyana UK Health Security Agency

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Q1227538. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . ncim-stage.nci.nih.gov. Retrieved . ncim-stage.nci.nih.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . National Agricultural Library Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . EuroVoc. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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