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What is Public Health?

The organized effort of society to protect and improve the health and well-being of the population through:

  • health monitoring, assessment and surveillance
  • health promotion
  • reducing inequalities in health status
  • prevention of disease, injury, disorder, disability and premature death, and
  • protection from environmental hazards to health.

This is done through an appropriate balancing of the rights and responsibilities of individuals and organizations and the responsibility of government to protect and promote health.

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