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public health

NOUN
community health
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LA Health Services is the largest public health system in the state and second-largest in the nation.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

Health Secretary James Murray said the plan would "help more people build exercise into their everyday lives, improving public health and supporting our ambition to reduce pressure on the NHS".

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026

Experts have been warning that dismantling global public health initiatives will end up hurting Americans, too, in the end.

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026

Transparency, particularly the “radical transparency” that this administration has promised, requires a clear accounting of who made these decisions, what evidence was considered and why longstanding public health approaches were changed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

In a library book on African public health, before we left home, I found a drawing of a worm as thin as a hair meandering across the front of a man’s startled eyeball.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver




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