Everyday Public Health: What Is It?

Описание: Public health is more than just preventing and responding to infectious disease outbreaks. In today's video, I will try to show that. I will cover some of the varied fields, professions, and workers that, knowingly or not, work in public health.

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0:00 Stream Starting Soon
1:17 Firsthand Account
5:03 Introduction and Disclaimers
6:20 Public Health Definitions
13:20 Questions and Answers and an Angry Kitty
14:34 Infectious Disease Prevention
17:07 Understanding Health and Public Health
18:20 Social Wellbeing
20:51 Educators
24:13 Environmental Health and Animal Health
25:48 Questions and Answers
27:12 Policy and Law
28:41 Built Environment
31:06 Technology
33:40 Emergency Responders
35:53 Healthcare
38:42 Questions and Answers
51:10 Outro

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