"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.
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
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| MeSH Number(s) |
H02.403.720 N01.400.550 N06.850
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| Concept/Terms |
Public Health- Public Health
- Health, Public
- Community Health
- Health, Community
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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.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2005 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2006 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2007 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2016 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2017 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2020 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2021 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2022 | 7 | 5 | 12 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2025 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Public Health" by people in Profiles.
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Geriatric-focused education for community health workers: a dementia training that effectively provides knowledge and skills to address dementia within the scope of practice of this public health workforce. Front Public Health. 2025; 13:1601388.
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Colonial harm in new packaging: Indigenous critiques of the tobacco industry's 'harm reduction' rhetoric. Health Promot Int. 2025 Jul 01; 40(4).
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Pre-Pandemic Landscape of the Oklahoma Public Health Workforce: A Case Study From the Region 6 Training Needs Assessment Survey, 2019. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2024 Jul-Aug 01; 30(4):E174-E183.
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Debate as an Active Learning Pedagogy Among Pharmacy Students in a Public Health Course. Am J Pharm Educ. 2024 Jul; 88(7):100724.
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Warning Labels as a Public Health Intervention: Effects and Challenges for Tobacco, Cannabis, and Opioid Medications. Annu Rev Public Health. 2024 May; 45(1):425-442.
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Enhancing Primary Care and Community Health: A NAPCRG Report on 2 Conferences. Ann Fam Med. 2024 Jan-Feb; 22(1):75-76.
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Empirical Comparison of Imputation Methods for Multivariate Missing Data in Public Health. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 01 14; 20(2).
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A Mixed Methods Process Evaluation of a Food Hygiene Intervention in Low-Income Informal Neighbourhoods of Kisumu, Kenya. Matern Child Health J. 2023 May; 27(5):824-836.
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Wastewater surveillance of pathogens can inform public health responses. Nat Med. 2022 10; 28(10):1992-1995.
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Trends in public interest in child abuse in the United States: An infodemiology study of Google Trends from 2004 to 2022. Child Abuse Negl. 2022 Dec; 134:105868.