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 316 publications over 26 distinct years, with a maximum of 32 publications in 2018

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1999	1	0	1
2001	0	1	1
2002	3	3	6
2003	5	2	7
2004	2	2	4
2005	1	4	5
2006	1	1	2
2007	5	5	10
2008	11	3	14
2009	9	2	11
2010	3	6	9
2011	2	3	5
2012	7	5	12
2013	9	1	10
2014	5	6	11
2015	5	8	13
2016	13	5	18
2017	15	10	25
2018	18	14	32
2019	7	14	21
2020	11	11	22
2021	10	12	22
2022	5	14	19
2023	7	13	20
2024	5	5	10
2025	5	1	6

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

Chandler RD, Warner S, Guillaume D, Wells J. Exploring ChatGPT's role in women's health self-education: A descriptive study comparing responses with public health guidance. Nurs Outlook. 2025 Jul-Aug; 73(4):102468.

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Sentell T, Berreman JM, Reichhardt L, Grace A, Yamauchi J, Marshall J, Withy K. Quantifying the Public Health Workforce for Hawai'i: Current Data, Measurement Complexities, and Conceptual Frameworks for Next Steps. Hawaii J Health Soc Welf. 2025 Jul; 84(7):87-95.

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Sugimoto-Matsuda J, Nelson-Hurwitz DC, Chung-Do JJ, Antonio MCK, McFarlane E, Hurwitz E, Braun KL. Assuring the "Public" in "Public Health": Developing Workforce Capacity, Diversity, and Connectedness at the Department of Public Health Sciences. Hawaii J Health Soc Welf. 2025 Jul; 84(7):120-127.

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Barrett RH, Bicego EJ, Cotton TC, Kegley S, Key K, Mitchell CS, Farley K, Shahin Z, Hoffman L, Okoye D, Washington K, Walton S, Burney R, Gruner A, Ross T, Grant HW, Mooney MV, Sanford LA, Henry Akintobi T. A Community-Engaged Approach to Community Health Needs and Assets Assessment for Public Health Research. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2025 Jun 27; 22(7).

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Fu R, Liu S, Oikawa M, Noguchi H, Kawamura A. Healthcare utilization among Japanese older adults during later stage of prolonged pandemic. Sci Rep. 2025 Apr 22; 15(1):13813.

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Hansen L, Wu YY, Sentell TL, Thompson M, St John TL, Schmid S, Pirkle CM. Spearfishing and public health promotion: A cross-sectional analysis of the Hawai'i Behavioral Risk Factor?Surveillance System Survey. PLoS One. 2025; 20(3):e0319169.

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Williams L, Craig LS, Peacock E, Fields T, Al-Dahir S, Hawkins F, Gillard C, Singleton B, Theall K, Wilson M, D'Amour G, Vu M, Sylvain C, Franklin L, Caldwell K, Krousel-Wood M, Sarpong D. Exploring the Roles of Trust, Attitudes, and Motivations in COVID-19 Decision-Making and Vaccination Likelihood: Insights from the Louisiana Community Engagement Alliance (LA-CEAL) Community-Academic-Public Health-Practice (CAPP) Partnership. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2024 Dec 31; 22(1).

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Freudenberg N. The Role of Social Movements in Reducing Harmful Corporate Practices Comment on "National Public Health Surveillance of Corporations in Key Unhealthy Commodity Industries - A Scoping Review and Framework Synthesis". Int J Health Policy Manag. 2024; 13:8664.

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Begay C, Kahn CB, Johnson T, Dickerson CJ, Tutt M, Begay AR, Bauer M, Teufel-Shone NI. Developing a Public Health Course to Train Undergraduate Student Health Messengers to Address Vaccine Hesitancy in an American Indian Community. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2024 Oct 04; 21(10).

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Syvertsen J. Looking into the black mirror of the overdose crisis: Assessing the harms of collaborative surveillance technologies in the United States response. Med Anthropol Q. 2025 Mar; 39(1):e12875.

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