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
public health
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Facts

10 properties
Described by source
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[7]
NCI Thesaurus ID
C17039[10]
OpenStreetMap tag
healthcare:speciality=community[6]
Practiced by
public health scientist, public health physician[12][13]
Topic has template
Template:Public health, Template:Public health sidebar[8][9]
🏷️ Also known as
en social hygiene en public health en community health en health service en public aspects of medicine en public health science en public hygiene en public health service ar صحة عامة ar الصحه العامه ar الصحة العامة ar صحة عمومية cs veřejné zdraví da folkesundhedsvidenskab da folkesundhed de öffentliche Gesundheit de allgemeine Gesundheit el δημόσια υγεία es salud publica es acceso a los servicios de salud
🔖 Identifiers · 97
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh85108638
GND ID
4139640-6
AGROVOC ID
c_6349
ANZSRC 2020 FoR ID
4206, 420699
ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID
294933816
Academia.edu topic ID
Public_Health
All-Science Journal Classification Code
2739
Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID
20434
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300132827
Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors ID
4243
BBC News topic ID
c34mxg7ewg1t
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BNCF Thesaurus ID
8237
BabelNet ID
03229529n
Banglapedia ID (Bangla edition)
জনস্বাস্থ্য
Banglapedia ID (English edition)
Public_Health
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
119332195
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
public-health
CAB ID
160981
CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas ID
public-health-2234
Cyprus Bibliography ID
12212
DPLA subject term
Public Health
DeCS ID
28455
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.1
E-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia ID
1940
ERIC Thesaurus ID
Public Health
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/public-health
EuroVoc ID
3885
Euronews topic ID
public-health
FAST ID
1082238
FactGrid item ID
Betty
Freebase ID
/m/02cm61
GACS ID
1370
GEMET ID
6798
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
salut-publica
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0209450
Handbook of Texas ID
smp01
Harper's tag
public-health
History of Modern Biomedicine ID
public-health
ICPSR Subject Thesaurus ID
22938
IGI Global Dictionary ID
24050
J9U entity ID
987007546171805171
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
public-health, community-medicine
KBpedia ID
PublicHealth
Library of Congress Classification
RA, RA421-RA790.95
MeSH concept ID
M0018089
MeSH descriptor ID
D011634
MeSH term ID
T034347
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
138816342
NALT ID
28292
NDL Authority ID
00566768
NL CR AUT ID
ph135099
NLA Trove people ID
1452099
National Library of Latvia ID
000071263
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID
XX524992
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
3034
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
4000911
Open Library subject ID
public_health
OpenStreetMap Wiki item ID
Saxifragales
PSH ID
8542
Reddit topic ID (obsolete)
public_health
SVKKL authority ID
h0004359-verejne-zdravi
ScholarGPS field and discipline ID
fields/13, disciplines/253
Store medisinske leksikon ID
samfunnsmedisin
Subreddit
publichealth
TED topic ID
public+health
The Guardian topic ID
society/health
The Independent topic ID
public-health
Thesaurus Sozialwissenschaften ID
10053580
Topic's main category
Category:Public health
Treccani ID
salute
Treccani's Dizionario di Storia ID
sanita-pubblica
Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana ID
sanita_res-17a1b4c8-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10643794
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
50820
UN Thesaurus ID
1005250
Wellcome Collection concept ID
uj4hz4ct
WikiKids ID
Volksgezondheid
WikiProjectMed ID
Public health
Wikitólica ID
s/salud-publica
YSA ID
Y95882
YSO ID
452
Zhihu topic ID
19680895
Ávvir topic ID
albmotdearvvasvuohta

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← Field of work 92
← Main subject 18
Subtypes 11
← Facet of 10
Examples 6
← Has effect 3
← Studied by 3
Instance of 2
On focus list of Wikimedia project 2
Subclass of 2
← Academic major 2
← Has goal 2
← Has use 2
← Health specialty 2
← Industry 2
Facet of 1
FactGrid item ID 1
Has these parts 1
Studied by 1
Topic has template 1
Topic's main category 1
← Category's main topic 1
← FactGrid item ID 1
← Interested in 1
← Is the study of 1
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Summary

public health is an academic discipline[1]. It is a type of health sciences[2] and social science[3].

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  9. [10] ↑ . ncim-stage.nci.nih.gov. Retrieved . ncim-stage.nci.nih.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5d ago · Dipankar Das · 2026-11-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    "Added [as] description: অৱগত সিদ্ধান্তৰ জৰিয়তে স্বাস্থ্যৰ উন্নতি সাধন"
  2. 5w ago · Ottawajin · 2026-09-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    J-GLOBAL ID → 200906001859824318
    "Created claim: J-GLOBAL ID: 200906001859824318, Matched to Public Health (#262258575) in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7507|J-GLOBA"
  3. 6w ago · Mrwdat3 · 2026-09-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikitólica ID → s/salud-publica
    "Created claim: Wikitólica ID: s/salud-publica, batch #275041"
  4. 11w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    OpenStreetMap Wiki item ID → Saxifragales
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #48943: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  5. 14w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → public-health
    "Created claim: Harper's tag: public-health, Matched to public health (#289949743) in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's ta"
  6. 16w ago · Bencemac · 2026-07-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikitólica ID → s/salud-publica
    "Added qualifier: Determination method or standard: record linkage, batch #260985"
  7. 17w ago · EleJur · 2026-07-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikitólica ID → s/salud-publica
    "Created claim: Wikitólica ID: s/salud-publica, batch #260063"
  8. 21w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → h0004359-verejne-zdravi
    "Created claim: SVKKL authority ID: h0004359-verejne-zdravi, batch #259494"
  9. 25w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    "Changed claim qualifiers: YSO ID: 452, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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