| Ms Vanessa Wen Royal Society of Public Health & G-HEALTH vanessaw6@163.com         VALIDATE Role: Network Affiliate Research Keywords: Public health Biography Public health is a public service that is related to the health of the people in a country or region. Public health specifically includes the prevention, monitoring and treatment of major diseases, especially infectious diseases (such as tuberculosis, AIDS, SARS, etc.); Supervision and control of food, drugs, public environmental hygiene, as well as related hygiene promotion, health education, immunization, etc. For example, the control, prevention, and treatment of SARS belong to typical public health functions. There is a certain difference between public health and general medical services. In order to allocate public health resources fairly, efficiently, and reasonably, it is necessary to clarify what public health is. |