Public Health
The science and practice of protecting and improving the health of whole communities through education, policy, disease surveillance, and environmental regulation.
Related terms
Epidemiology The branch of medicine that studies how often diseases occur in different groups of people and why. Epidemiologists are the disease detectives who investigate outbreaks and clusters. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The U.S. federal public health agency that tracks disease and is the body that officially evaluates and designates cancer clusters. CDC PLACES A CDC dataset providing local-level estimates of chronic disease, health risk behaviors, and prevention measures down to the census-tract level.