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What is public health?

What is public health? Watch Katherine's daily routine to consider examples of public health advancements that can often be overlooked.

In this first video, we meet Katharine. By seeing Katherine’s daily routine, we consider examples of public health advancements that can often be overlooked.

So what is public health? These days I am sure many people will have heard more about what public health is than they care for.

One unavoidable and ongoing public health issue, coronavirus, impacts us all. Public health professionals are working incredibly hard to protect the health of the public by trying to control this infectious disease. But public health is not only that. Public health is much much more, and is an ongoing part of everyone’s daily lives. Watch the video to find out more.

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Tackling Public Health Issues: Concepts and Evidence

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