Public Health

"Public Health" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Branch of medicine concerned with the prevention and control of disease and disability, and the promotion of physical and mental health of the population on the international, national, state, or municipal level.

Descriptor ID	D011634
MeSH Number(s)	H02.403.720 N01.400.550 N06.850
Concept/Terms	Public Health Public Health Health, Public Community Health Health, Community Environment, Preventive Medicine and Public Health Environment, Preventive Medicine and Public Health Environment, Preventive Medicine & Public Health

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Public Health".

Natural Sciences [H]
Health Occupations [H02]
Medicine [H02.403]
Public Health [H02.403.720]
Health Care [N]
Population Characteristics [N01]
Health [N01.400]
Public Health [N01.400.550]
Environment and Public Health [N06]
Public Health [N06.850]

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Public Health" by people in this website by year, and whether "Public Health" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 152 publications over 26 distinct years, with a maximum of 16 publications in 2020

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1999	0	1	1
2001	1	1	2
2002	1	0	1
2003	2	3	5
2004	0	2	2
2005	3	0	3
2006	4	0	4
2007	4	2	6
2008	3	3	6
2009	3	3	6
2010	2	5	7
2011	2	2	4
2012	3	4	7
2013	4	2	6
2014	1	2	3
2015	4	6	10
2016	3	8	11
2017	2	3	5
2018	2	2	4
2019	4	3	7
2020	8	8	16
2021	6	4	10
2022	3	6	9
2023	2	7	9
2024	2	4	6
2025	2	0	2

Below are the most recent publications written about "Public Health" by people in Profiles.

Joseph HA, Lemon SC, Goins KV, Aytur SA, Zimmerman S, Alexander E, Brown C, Saha S, Schramm PJ. A Flexible Framework for Urgent Public Health Climate Action. Am J Public Health. 2025 Jul; 115(7):1062-1073.

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Fantasia HC. Erosion of Scientific Integrity and Implications for Public Health. Nurs Womens Health. 2025 Jun; 29(3):139-141.

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Martin R, DaCunha A, Bailey A, Joseph R, Kane K. Evaluating public health vending machine rollout and utilization in criminal-legal settings. J Subst Use Addict Treat. 2025 Feb; 169:209584.

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Lipsitch M, Bassett MT, Brownstein JS, Elliott P, Eyre D, Grabowski MK, Hay JA, Johansson MA, Kissler SM, Larremore DB, Layden JE, Lessler J, Lynfield R, MacCannell D, Madoff LC, Metcalf CJE, Meyers LA, Ofori SK, Quinn C, Bento AI, Reich NG, Riley S, Rosenfeld R, Samore MH, Sampath R, Slayton RB, Swerdlow DL, Truelove S, Varma JK, Grad YH. Infectious disease surveillance needs for the United States: lessons from Covid-19. Front Public Health. 2024; 12:1408193.

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Ngoma T, Adewole I, Ainsworth V, Chin D, Chin J, Elzawawy A, Joseph A, Mallum A, Ndlovu N, Ngoma M, Oladipo A, Swanson W, Ngwa W. Cancer control collaborations between China and African countries. Lancet Oncol. 2024 Apr; 25(4):e164-e172.

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Coute RA, Nathanson BH, Shekhar AC, White CN, Kurz MC, Jackson EA, Mader TJ. The Public Health and Economic Impact of Drug Overdose Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in the United States. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2025; 29(4):325-331.

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Lambert LH, Tompkins BL, Uber IC, Kapoor KG, Ramsey DJ. Retinal injury from a laser skin resurfacing device during medical tourism: a public health concern. BMC Ophthalmol. 2024 Mar 26; 24(1):134.

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Reynolds ML, Loehr LR, Hogan SL, Hu Y, Isasi CR, Cordero C, Ricardo AC, Lash JP, Derebail VK. Prevalence of infertility and pregnancy loss among individuals with kidney disease in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos. Womens Health (Lond). 2024 Jan-Dec; 20:17455057231224544.

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Chriqui JF, Asada Y, Smith NR, Kroll-Desrosiers A, Lemon SC. Advancing the science of policy implementation: a call to action for the implementation science field. Transl Behav Med. 2023 11 05; 13(11):820-825.

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Guastaferro K, Sheldrick RC, Nunez-Pepen R, Ortiz M, Much-Hichos M, Trieu D, Broder-Fingert S, Feinberg E. Commentary: How Lay Health Workers in a Federally Qualified Community Health Center Filled a Critical Void in a Public Health Crisis. Fam Community Health. 2023 Oct-Dec 01; 46(4):259-262.

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