Words similar to public-health

Example sentences for: public-health

How can you use “public-health” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Traditional public-health measures such as widespread testing and notification of the infected would slow the spread of AIDS, argues the cover essay.
The authors of the “The Global HIV/AIDS Vaccine Enterprise: Scientific Strategic Plan” have laid out a timely and insightful plan to address perhaps the greatest public-health need of the millennium.
For disease outbreak detection, the public-health community has historically relied on the watchful eyes of doctors and other health-care workers, who have reported individual cases or clusters of cases of particular diseases to health-care and other authorities.
The important implication for EWSs is that in such situations, especially where the basic reproductive ratio of infections (R0) is initially very high but is rapidly reduced (perhaps by public-health interventions), small deviations in the realized number of infectious contacts are amplified, resulting in relatively large variation in the final size of the outbreak.
Of course, the "dung on the Virgin Mary" has taken over the headlines from our public-health problem.