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Public health to me has always meant your overall well being and health. I don't mean going to your annual exam with your physician but your physical, mental, environmental health. I have worked in urgent, primary, neurosurgery clinics but I have seen the largest impact on communities and the people living in the community when I worked on a deeper level. I worked within a wellness center at NAYA and naturopath clinic that I was able to get out and become a part of the community and help build blocks to an overall healthier community. That's why I chose to dive deeper and take an internship in Epidemiology and placed me where I am today. I look forward to making a difference in the communities health I live in.

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To me, Public Health is the prevention of health problems before they occur.  Physicians are responsible for treating people who are already sick, while Public Health professionals work to stop people from ever developing issues that could threaten their health.  Preventing health problems from manifesting themselves in communities means that there is less money spent on healthcare, a greater general wellness, and a safer environment.  I also think that the field of Public Health plays a crucial role in promoting equality in communities by protecting people no matter their race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status.

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To me, Public Health is the prevention of health problems before they occur.  Physicians are responsible for treating people who are already sick, while Public Health professionals work to stop people from ever developing issues that could threaten their health.  Preventing health problems from manifesting themselves in communities means that there is less money spent on healthcare, a greater general wellness, and a safer environment.  I also think that the field of Public Health plays a crucial role in promoting equality in communities by protecting people no matter their race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status.

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Public health is the attempt to provide effective and equitable solutions to problems that help improve the health of a community. Public health efforts come in many forms often including a wide variety of strategies and collaboration across multiple disciplines to help promote the health of larger groups .

picture: https://commonfund.nih.gov/workforce/publichealthrelevance

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 What Public health means to me is the what the (health) status of a population is, physically, mental, and environmental. Personally, I think public health is designed to monitor wellness and promote preventative healthcare in a large scale basis. Public health is the combination of efforts from community members and health officials that work towards improving and promoting healthier lifestyles and well being in large populations. These groups work to monitor the wellbeing of  the area and raise awareness of local and global health issues at a large scale basis to promote preventative healthcare. 

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Public health to me is focused on promoting and protecting the health of populations which share common characteristics.  John Hopkin's School of Public Health touches on the essence of this idea with the example that "In the medical field, clinicians treat diseases and injuries one patient at a time. But in public health, we prevent disease and injury. Public health researchers, practitioners and educators work with communities and populations. We identify the causes of disease and disability, and we implement large-scale solutions." Link

Within that idea, I identify with the APHA's 10 Essential Public Health Services that provide a framework for public health to protect and promote the health of all people in all communities.

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Public health is the science which emphasizes the health promotion, the prevention and detection of diseases, disability and well-being of people and their community. Public health can be effective by collaboration and coordination with different level of government, different teams, societies and individuals. Public health not only focuses on body diseases but also physical and mental well-being of people by focusing on diet, physical exercise and substance use and abuse. Also, public health is the precaution in daily life of people in spreading diseases to others and taking diseases from others in order to contain contagious diseases.

The picture posted below illustrates the public health in daily life preventing COVID-19 from spreading. It gives information to people regarding how important is having facemask on face in the time of pandemic.

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To me, Public Health is protecting and improving the health of people and communities. These communities can be large or small, and the people in these communities can be from various backgrounds (different ethnicities, socioeconomic statuses, genders, etc.). The overarching theme is that Public Health should be all-inclusive, not only in whom it helps, but the areas in which it focuses. Think of it as a puzzle, where the puzzle pieces are the different divisions of Public Health such as environmental health, mental health, Epidemiology, and so on. Without all of these pieces fitting together, you cannot effectively protect the health of an entire population.

Image URL: http://www.movhd.com/about-movhd/

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To me, public health is an umbrella that encompasses everything from encouraging exercise, to safer sex behaviors, to medical standards. Public health looks to improve the health of communities as a whole, and seeks to provide education and resources to do so. Much of this is linked to community education, though it also runs into policy and environmental needs. (image source: https://www.apha.org/what-is-public-health/generation-public-health/our-movement)

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To me, public health is an umbrella that encompasses everything from encouraging exercise, to safer sex behaviors, to medical standards. Public health looks to improve the health of communities as a whole, and seeks to provide education and resources to do so. Much of this is linked to community education, though it also runs into policy and environmental needs. (image source: https://www.apha.org/what-is-public-health/generation-public-health/our-movement)

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To me, public health is a career that gives us an opportunity to have the positive impact we want to see in this world. The collection of disciplines that exist within public health are what I believe to be strength of the field. We are living in a country that is becoming more diverse every day. The rapidly changing demographics of this country are proof that being part of an equally diverse field of study is essential for us to understand the struggles of others. If we understand these struggles, we can find new and creative ways to be the driving force behind public health practice and policy. 

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To me, public health is a career that gives us an opportunity to have the positive impact we want to see in this world. The collection of disciplines that exist within public health are what I believe to be strength of the field. We are living in a country that is becoming more diverse every day. The rapidly changing demographics of this country are proof that being part of an equally diverse field of study is essential for us to understand the struggles of others. If we understand these struggles, we can find new and creative ways to be the driving force behind public health practice and policy. 

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Image source: https://www.unthsc.edu/school-of-public-health/equity-diversity-inclusion/

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What does public health mean to me? Persevering in the face of adversity.

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What does public health mean to me? Persevering in the face of adversity.

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From a more objective perspective, Public Health is the interdisciplinary study of health risks, their consequences, and potential mitigation strategies. Though that's not a very fun answer.

Health crises, big or small, pose an existential threat to society as we know it. This is evident now more than ever with COVID-19. Sometimes these challenges can seem insurmountable, given their widespread reach and potentially deadly consequences --- despite that, healthcare and public health officials continue on, bearing the torch in the dark unknown. It is truly inspiring to see folks from all walks of life work together to protect not only themselves, but their family, their neighbors, and their community. In my eyes, public health is the conscious effort to protect those around you regardless of the challenges ahead.

Sort of a silly video to share, but I can't help but think of the "never give up!" fisherman when I think about overcoming tough challenges. His energy gives me the strength to carry on!

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Matsuoka Shuzo [松岡修造 ] - あきらめかけているあなた (NEVER GIVE UP!!) [English]

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Public health protects individual, community, and population health and aims to improve everyone's well-being through various tactics that are science-based. At its core, public health strives to assess health problems within the community, then develop and implement plans to appropriately address these issues, and evaluate to ensure the desired effectiveness is reached. To me, the beauty of this field is that it covers a vast number of topics, ranging from the promotion of physical activity to raising awareness on the health risks brought on by climate change. For my picture, I've attached a poster presented by the Public Service Alliance of Canada back in 2016. What has happened in the last few months has made it clear that racism is a public health crisis that needs to be promptly addressed.

**original post submitted on 9/27/20 and was reposted to include my name**

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Public health to me is an area where many disciplines meet together to promote and protect the health of communities as a whole as well as sometimes on the individual level. It is recognizing factors in communities or individuals that put them more at risk of encountering or contracting something that is harmful to them. Knowing those risks it is important for people who work in public health to educate the people they are working with about them. Whilst making them aware of the resources they have available in their communities to help them and promoting healthy behaviors that will prevent them from needing those resources. Public health to me is all about prevention.

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To me, public health is a network of fields and specialties working together to keep a population healthy. Public health sits at a unique intersection of medicine, biology, and social sciences. Due to public health’s multidisciplinary nature, it can be found across a variety of careers from community planners and researchers to safety professionals and health educators.This breadth allows for specific needs to be addressed and when the efforts of these fields are combined and coordinated, communities benefit. Public health allows for the needs of a community to be assessed, gaps filled, infrastructure installed in a data driven and collaborative way. When these needs are met and systems are implemented, the quality of life increases and the community becomes healthier. 

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To me, public health is the science of preventing disease and other poor health outcomes at a population level through education, research, and social justice measures. For example, in the case of the COVID-19 pandemic the goal of public health is to educate about the purpose of face coverings, attempt to provide equitable access to prevention resources, low/no-cost testing, access to health insurance, and more. Public health also has the responsibility to research the disparities in the spread of disease and why certain populations or individuals are more at risk of poor health outcomes.

Picture: $73,300 bill for uninsured COVID-19 patient. The cost of preventing COVID-19 would be much lower (cost of masks, education materials, etc.).

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Having education and awareness are important aspects to me when thinking about public health. When it comes to areas of public health we can change or adapt to, behaviors cannot be promoted, prevented, or changed if we don't understand how and why they affect areas of our own health and others' health.

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Public health is a multifaceted discipline that promotes health while preventing and tracking disease among all individuals, regardless of their background. By providing information and resources relating to health, public health officials can improve health equity and increase the quality of life among community members.

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Speaking of public health as a science, it means many things. Promoting health behaviors, protecting people’s health, preventing them from getting sick, follow epidemics, and making or amending laws can all be considered as public health .To me, public health means making and changing rules to make primary treatments accessible for people, when they need to. I believe that access to health care is a component of human rights. Americans should have access to free primary health care, such as the civilians of other developed countries, like Canada or Britain. To me, it is tragic when I hear that people decide to go off their medications because they cannot afford them. People lose their beloved ones because of the deficiencies in the system.Besides, to me, public health means tracking the effect of common diseases on people’s life. For example, we all can see how we become isolated these days because of the spread of COVID-19. This quarantine time undoubtedly affects people’s mental health and work efficiency. Public health scientists consider these outbreaks and evaluate their effects. The result of these studies helps societies bring solutions against similar occurrences for the future.In sum, to me, public health means tracking health-related circumstances and their effects on people and try to amend rules to protect the nation.

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Speaking of public health as a science, it means many things. Promoting health behaviors, protecting people’s health, preventing them from getting sick, follow epidemics, and making or amending laws can all be considered as public health .To me, public health means making and changing rules to make primary treatments accessible for people, when they need to. I believe that access to health care is a component of human rights. Americans should have access to free primary health care, such as the civilians of other developed countries, like Canada or Britain. To me, it is tragic when I hear that people decide to go off their medications because they cannot afford them. People lose their beloved ones because of the deficiencies in the system.Besides, to me, public health means tracking the effect of common diseases on people’s life. For example, we all can see how we become isolated these days because of the spread of COVID-19. This quarantine time undoubtedly affects people’s mental health and work efficiency. Public health scientists consider these outbreaks and evaluate their effects. The result of these studies helps societies bring solutions against similar occurrences for the future.In sum, to me, public health means tracking health-related circumstances and their effects on people and try to amend rules to protect the nation.

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To me, public health is an interdisciplinary discipline that combines an array of knowledge inside. Simply speaking, the three objectives to prevent the disease, prolong life and promote health status for everyone in every stage of life. This subject mainly focuses on a smaller group like a local scale. To do the things they want to do, they have to collect the authentic data from local people or environment by governments or related bureaus or institutes. For public health main purpose, I think it just want to make the community become a better and healthy place, everyone can receive an equity welfare.

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy1CAMObRzc

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Public health to me means bringing accessible, culturally competent, and effective healthcare and health equity to all - no matter where you happen to be born or what your life circumstances are. 

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Public health to me means bringing accessible, culturally competent, and effective healthcare and health equity to all - no matter where you happen to be born or what your life circumstances are. 

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Conducting focus group discussions on family planning in Rwanda, 2018

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For me, public health means public health workers work together for the good condition of mental and physical health for the public and it contains all aspect in our life. As a public health worker, we stand in the very front of the process of  diseases and through series of work to prevent the development of diseases in groups of people who are at high risk.

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For me, public health means public health workers work together for the good condition of mental and physical health for the public and it contains all aspect in our life. As a public health worker, we stand in the very front of the process of  diseases and through series of work to prevent the development of diseases in groups of people who are at high risk.

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Please be sure your post includes your name.

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Public Health are the factors that play into a community’s, and an individual’s, well being. This is built up of the psychological and physical health of a person. There are many factors that play into these. For a community sense it is important for opportunities for education and preventative measures to be taken by communities members. Often in the form of adverts, articles, classes, community groups, and news bulletins. There are a multitude of subsets within communities which are in need of additional specified resources creating many challenges to the field of public health.

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Something that many see as promoting health and preventing diseases. Personally I think there can be many threats got the public's health therefore having so much room to address each obstacle. A wide spectrum of resources on how to establish healthier lifestyles regardless of the environment, social economic status, gender, ethnicity, etc. It might be a little naive to say but in a way I think of Public Health being a big organization or a big family. Trying to help the entire Public's health! It process, a journey, but it won't be done alone.

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Public Health is the umbrella of all things that matter.  We cannot avoid any social, political, global health, environmental, and economical issue without involving Public Health.  The protection of individuals and its environment, along with many other factors pertaining to well being and sustainability. 

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Public Health is the umbrella of all things that matter.  We cannot avoid any social, political, global health, environmental, and economical issue without involving Public Health.  The protection of individuals and its environment, along with many other factors pertaining to well being and sustainability. 

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What Public Health Means to Me, Daniel Belong

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What Public Health Means to Me, Daniel Belong

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Public Health means providing the crucial education that so many of us lack in our country today on what it means to live a healthy life and be in a healthy environment.  It means providing a healthy and clean environment for all of us to inhabit.  Additionally, it means providing a foundational education of the causes of disease and disease prevention, leading to preventative resources such as exercise and nutrition.  I think it is crucial to change the mindsets of many to be able to think long term.  Many diseases and situations slowly progress over time, and so many of us think “it won’t happen to me.”  Public Health means changing our mindset.

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Public health is the science which emphasizes the health promotion, the prevention and detection of diseases, disability and well-being of people and their community. Public health can be effective by collaboration and coordination with different level of government, different teams, societies and individuals. Public health not only focuses on body diseases but also physical and mental well-being of people by focusing on diet, physical exercise and substance use and abuse. Also, public health is the precaution in daily life of people in spreading diseases to others and taking diseases from others in order to contain contagious diseases.

The picture posted below illustrates the public health in daily life preventing COVID-19 from spreading. It gives information to people regarding how important is having facemask on face in the time of pandemic.

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Public health to me is an area where many disciplines meet together to promote and protect the health of communities as a whole as well as sometimes on the individual level. It is recognizing factors in communities or individuals that put them more at risk of encountering or contracting something that is harmful to them. Knowing those risks it is important for people who work in public health to educate the people they are working with about them. Whilst making them aware of the resources they have available in their communities to help them and promoting healthy behaviors that will prevent them from needing those resources. Public health to me is all about prevention. -Caitlyn Clark

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Public health protects and enhances individual and co

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To me, public health represents the examination, understanding, and actionable dedication to a wide variety of health related issues, often from a community, society, or government standpoint. To me it means taking action not towards merely political or power oriented ends, although many policy positions may need to be defended, but rather represents taking action towards helping people to remain healthy and empowered for this sake in itself. I think I have come to realize that part of what is so particularly exciting and important about the field of public health is its interdisciplinary nature. Public health, especially in the 21st century, may require comprehensive understandings of ecology, population health, climate change, economics, legal structures, reproductive health, virology, epidemiology, education.... Truly I find it difficult to think of a field which does not in some way influence public health, and which public health efforts do not utilize in some capacity. Health is a necessary study for wherever there is a society present. To me personally, it certainly represents development, empowerment, and empathetic policy, though I look forward to gaining further contributing understandings of public health in the near future.

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Public Health is a wide array of disciplines that focuses on the welfare of the general public in ways that help prolonging life, improving quality of life in a community through organized efforts.  It has focused on prevention and treatment of diseases, through which aims to improve quality of life. Public Health has been constantly evolving over the years, where there have been different organization focusing on different missions so as to achieve goals focusing on  human health to environment.

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To me, public health is an interdisciplinary discipline that combines an array of knowledge inside. Simply speaking, the three objectives to prevent the disease, prolong life and promote health status for everyone in every stage of life. This subject mainly focuses on a smaller group like a local scale. To do the things they want to do, they have to collect the authentic data from local people or environment by governments or related bureaus or institutes. For public health main purpose, I think it just want to make the community become a better and healthy place, everyone can receive an equity welfare.

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy1CAMObRzc

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Public health is the intersection of many different disciplines that all focus on increasing the health of a community. While a doctor’s office focuses on treating an individual once they are sick, public health professionals work on preventing disease throughout an entire population. The goals of public health professionals are accomplished through a variety of ways, including vaccines, education, policy changes, and environmental standards. By tackling health issues at the population level, we are able to create systemic changes that impact the health of our entire community. 

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Public health is the intersection of many different disciplines that all focus on increasing the health of a community. While a doctor’s office focuses on treating an individual once they are sick, public health professionals work on preventing disease throughout an entire population. The goals of public health professionals are accomplished through a variety of ways, including vaccines, education, policy changes, and environmental standards. By tackling health issues at the population level, we are able to create systemic changes that impact the health of our entire community. 

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For me, public health means public health workers work together for the good condition of mental and physical health for the public and it contains all aspect in our life. As a public health worker, we stand in the very front of the process of diseases and through series of work to prevent the development of diseases in groups of people who are at high risk.

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What is Public Health to me?  LEAH KRENEK

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What is Public Health to me?  LEAH KRENEK

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When I think of public health, the first thing that comes to mind is equity. In our medical system, often those who can afford it benefit from certain services, while those who may need it most but can't afford it, tend to suffer. To me, public health addresses those differences that the medical system fails to recognize. Public health is aimed at giving everyone an equal opportunity at good health. Whether it be through nutrition programs at lower income schools or STD education and vaccine initiatives, all public health is geared towards prevention. Public health workers are trying to address the needs of communities, so that they can live their healthiest lifestyle, regardless of their SES, zip code, or ethnicity.

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What Public health means to me is the what the (health) status of a population is, physically, mental, and environmental. Personally, I think public health is designed to monitor wellness and promote preventative healthcare in a large scale basis. Public health is the combination of efforts from community members and health officials that work towards improving and promoting healthier lifestyles and well being in large populations. These groups work to monitor the wellbeing of  the area and raise awareness of local and global health issues at a large scale basis to promote preventative healthcare.

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A dear friend used to tell me that all policy is public health policy. While I don't necessarily agree, I have begun to realize the scope of issues and factors that public health embraces. It is constantly evolving to adapt to new needs and issues that pop up in communities. To me, public health is a blanket that encompasses many aspects of society. It promotes healthy lifestyles to increase public wellness, protects the health of a community as it is, and prevents the spread of disease and the decline of the health of a given population. From building healthy environments for people to live in, to crafting climate change policy, public health is the first line of defense for the health of the world.

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To me, public health is an umbrella that encompasses everything from encouraging exercise, to safer sex behaviors, to medical standards. Public health looks to improve the health of communities as a whole, and seeks to provide education and resources to do so. Much of this is linked to community education, though it also runs into policy and environmental needs. (image source: https://www.apha.org/what-is-public-health/generation-public-health/our-movement)

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To me, public health is an umbrella that encompasses everything from encouraging exercise, to safer sex behaviors, to medical standards. Public health looks to improve the health of communities as a whole, and seeks to provide education and resources to do so. Much of this is linked to community education, though it also runs into policy and environmental needs. (image source: https://www.apha.org/what-is-public-health/generation-public-health/our-movement)

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To me, public health is to educate people about the consequences of disease before it happened. Also, it is primary prevention for physical, mental and social health problems which leads to the potential cost reduction before disease occurs. In addition, public health is not focusing on individuals only but on population’s health promotion. 

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To me, public health is to educate people about the consequences of disease before it happened. Also, it is primary prevention for physical, mental and social health problems which leads to the potential cost reduction before disease occurs. In addition, public health is not focusing on individuals only but on population’s health promotion. 

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Public health is a system made up of many people and fields that aims to protect the physical, mental, and social health of people and their communities. It works to prevent people from getting sick or injured in the first place. It is campaigns that teach kids to cough into the crease of their elbows, or health programs that teach mothers what to eat while pregnant, or stop signs and cross walks around schools and parks to prevent accidents. Public health is all the things that people do not always identify as being related to health and then some.

Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbBDoFp2HIQ&ab_channel=TEDxTalks

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To me, public health is a network of fields and specialties working together to keep a population healthy. Public health sits at a unique intersection of medicine, biology, and social sciences. Due to public health’s multidisciplinary nature, it can be found across a variety of careers from community planners and researchers to safety professionals and health educators.This breadth allows for specific needs to be addressed and when the efforts of these fields are combined and coordinated, communities benefit. Public health allows for the needs of a community to be assessed, gaps filled, infrastructure installed in a data driven and collaborative way. When these needs are met and systems are implemented, the quality of life increases and the community becomes healthier.

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Speaking of public health as a science, it means many things. Promoting health behaviors, protecting people’s health, preventing them from getting sick, follow epidemics, and making or amending laws can all be considered as public health(https://www.apha.org/what-is-public-health).To me, public health means making and changing rules to make primary treatments accessible for people, when they need to. I believe that access to health care is a component of human rights. Americans should have access to free primary health care, such as the civilians of other developed countries, like Canada or Britain. To me, it is tragic when I hear that people decide to go off their medications because they cannot afford them. People lose their beloved ones because of the deficiencies in the system.Besides, to me, public health means tracking the effect of common diseases on people’s life. For example, we all can see how we become isolated these days because of the spread of COVID-19. This quarantine time undoubtedly affects people’s mental health and work efficiency. Public health scientists consider these outbreaks and evaluate their effects. The result of these studies helps societies bring solutions against similar occurrences for the future.In sum, to me, public health means tracking health-related circumstances and their effects on people and try to amend rules to protect the nation.

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Speaking of public health as a science, it means many things. Promoting health behaviors, protecting people’s health, preventing them from getting sick, follow epidemics, and making or amending laws can all be considered as public health(https://www.apha.org/what-is-public-health).To me, public health means making and changing rules to make primary treatments accessible for people, when they need to. I believe that access to health care is a component of human rights. Americans should have access to free primary health care, such as the civilians of other developed countries, like Canada or Britain. To me, it is tragic when I hear that people decide to go off their medications because they cannot afford them. People lose their beloved ones because of the deficiencies in the system.Besides, to me, public health means tracking the effect of common diseases on people’s life. For example, we all can see how we become isolated these days because of the spread of COVID-19. This quarantine time undoubtedly affects people’s mental health and work efficiency. Public health scientists consider these outbreaks and evaluate their effects. The result of these studies helps societies bring solutions against similar occurrences for the future.In sum, to me, public health means tracking health-related circumstances and their effects on people and try to amend rules to protect the nation.

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To me, public health is a career that gives us an opportunity to have the positive impact we want to see in this world. The collection of disciplines that exist within public health are what I believe to be strength of the field. We are living in a country that is becoming more diverse every day. The rapidly changing demographics of this country are proof that being part of an equally diverse field of study is essential for us to understand the struggles of others. If we understand these struggles, we can find new and creative ways to be the driving force behind public health practice and policy. 

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To me, public health is a career that gives us an opportunity to have the positive impact we want to see in this world. The collection of disciplines that exist within public health are what I believe to be strength of the field. We are living in a country that is becoming more diverse every day. The rapidly changing demographics of this country are proof that being part of an equally diverse field of study is essential for us to understand the struggles of others. If we understand these struggles, we can find new and creative ways to be the driving force behind public health practice and policy. 

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Image source: https://www.unthsc.edu/school-of-public-health/equity-diversity-inclusion/

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Public health to me is encapsulated in the term Preventative Healthcare; preventing injuries and illnesses before they even have a chance to affect the population. This is accomplished by providing people with clean water and air, Public Health announcements and education, and access for ALL to free or affordable healthcare. The measure of Public Health success is not measured by the number of people who we are able to treat, but by those who will never require treatment.

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Public health revolves around the interconnected relationship between health and well-being of humans, animals, and our environment. All the interactions we have and their associated "chain reactions" create an impact on our local and global communities. Public health is unique in the diversity of disciplines and applications focused on the goal of prevention of illness, disease, or other harm, education/promotion for positive change, and rapid response / providing protective measures when health and well-being are at risk/ in danger.

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Makinna Miles

To me, Public Health is cooperation within communities to address health problems. It's an agreement that we all deserve the right to healthy choices and lives, and that we should use scientific methods to find and implement programs that support that right.
At this time, two major components of Public Health are especially visible: awareness and adaptability. As we've seen, it's important that accurate information is widely circulated and that our places of work, education, and entertainment find ways to adapt when necessary.
Public Health also reflects cultural attitudes. Attached is a poster from the National Library of Medicine warning about the risk of STDs, but using an outdated model that is trying to use shame to illustrate a point. The other, a more recent poster from the Louisiana Dept. of Health., seeks to normalize STD testing and is illustrating their point through education.

Outdated campaign:
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/visualculture/infectious21.html

More modern campaign:
http://ladepthealth.blogspot.com/2019/04/std-conversations-dont-have-to-stay-in.html

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Public health to me is engaging in constant and evolving discourse related to prominent public health issues. I think it is vital for those in the field to have the courage to research and implement novel techniques of promotion, prevention, and treatment for the sake of improving general public health. Scientific discovery and progress lead to better health for all.

I'm including this as an example of a novel approach to a common idea. I think it's a fun one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUCBEKO3IJc

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Public health to me is an essential field in saving and improving well-being. It could be delivered through different approaches including protection (control of infectious diseases), preventing (vaccination), and promoting (educating).

Najla

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To me, Public Health is protecting and improving the health of people and communities. These communities can be large or small, and the people in these communities can be from various backgrounds (different ethnicities, socioeconomic statuses, genders, etc.). The overarching theme is that Public Health should be all-inclusive, not only in whom it helps, but the areas in which it focuses. Think of it as a puzzle, where the puzzle pieces are the different divisions of Public Health such as environmental health, mental health, Epidemiology, and so on. Without all of these pieces fitting together, you cannot effectively protect the health of an entire population.

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Public health is a multifaceted discipline that promotes health while preventing and tracking disease among all individuals, regardless of their background. By providing information and resources relating to health, public health officials can improve health equity and increase the quality of life among community members.

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Public health is the attempt to provide effective and equitable solutions to problems that help improve the health of a community. Public health efforts come in many forms often including a wide variety of strategies and collaboration across multiple disciplines to help promote the health of larger groups .

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Public health is providing the essential resources that everyone needs to succeed in life. It is inclusive and requires holistic approaches. Most importantly, it involves caring for others' wellbeing while caring for yourself.
- Sara Hacker

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To me, Public Health means awareness. Making sure that the public has the resources and information needed for proper health and wellness to diminish the rise in diseases and other illnesses that are preventable with proper knowledge and care.

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To me, Public Health means awareness. Making sure that the public has the resources and information needed for proper health and wellness to diminish the rise in diseases and other illnesses that are preventable with proper knowledge and care.

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-Nena Hayes

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Public health has a different definition for everyone. But for the public, it is a discipline that has emerged to promote and protect human health. Like the smallpox vaccine, before the smallpox vaccine was developed, there were severe outbreaks of infectious diseases caused by the smallpox virus. However, after the vaccine was developed, smallpox was not quickly under control until 1959, when the WHO launched a campaign to eradicate it (CDC, 2016). That's the role that public health has to play. It protects people's health through awareness, monitoring, prevention, and treatment of major diseases. Besides, public health is not limited to the prevention of diseases; for people's dietary health, mental health, health education, knowledge propaganda, and so on, all belong to public health. Public health is reflected in every aspect of people's daily lives. The development of public health has brought the world closer together and given scholars from different disciplines more opportunities to learn, share, and contribute their experiences together.

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To me, Public Health means protection of all the things essential for human thriving. COVID is now the most immedately pressing public health challenge the world is facing and has certainly drawn attention to the importance of public health measures. The future will bring so many public health challenges. We will need laser focus to make headway on the enormous issues in front of us. Health inequity, rising income inequality, impacts from climate change including water scarcity and global population displacement... Advancing solutions to mitigate all of these global problems will a collaborative enterprise across many disciplines. Public health will play an enormous part, and on a global scale.

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To me, Public Health means protection of all the things essential for human thriving. COVID is now the most immedately pressing public health challenge the world is facing and has certainly drawn attention to the importance of public health measures. The future will bring so many public health challenges. We will need laser focus to make headway on the enormous issues in front of us. Health inequity, rising income inequality, impacts from climate change including water scarcity and global population displacement... Advancing solutions to mitigate all of these global problems will a collaborative enterprise across many disciplines. Public health will play an enormous part, and on a global scale.

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Cathy Rasmussen

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To me, public health is the science of preventing disease and other poor health outcomes at a population level through education, research, and social justice measures. For example, in the case of the COVID-19 pandemic the goal of public health is to educate about the purpose of face coverings, attempt to provide equitable access to prevention resources, low/no-cost testing, access to health insurance, and more. Public health also has the responsibility to research the disparities in the spread of disease and why certain populations or individuals are more at risk of poor health outcomes.

Picture: $73,300 bill for uninsured COVID-19 patient. The cost of preventing COVID-19 would be much lower (cost of masks, education materials, etc.).

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For me, Public Health means health for all people regardless of their background, socioeconomic status, race, gender, age, occupation, etc.  Public health provides opportunities to use different disciplines in preventing and combating diseases. It functions like an umbrella that keeps not one person, but the community safe from the rain so that people don't get sick.
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To me, Public Health is the interconnection of multiple disciplines to prevent disease, injury and adverse health outcomes through accessibility, safety measures and policies, culturally responsive and accessible education, and social justice.  

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To me, Public Health is the interconnection of multiple disciplines to prevent disease, injury and adverse health outcomes through accessibility, safety measures and policies, culturally responsive and accessible education, and social justice.  

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Photo: Pre-COVID Food Pantry