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public health

science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals
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Summary

public health is an academic discipline[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of academic discipline entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,185 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: work[3]
  • Subclass of: health sciences[4], social science[5]
  • Commons category: Public health[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Public health[7]
  • Facet of: risk management[8]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: healthcare:speciality=community[9]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[10]
  • Topic has template: Template:Public health[11], Template:Public health sidebar[12]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C17039[13]
  • Studied by: health economics[14]
  • Exact match: https://schema.org/PublicHealth[15], http://id.cabi.org/cabt/97906[16], https://op.europa.eu/web/eu-vocabularies/concept/-/resource?uri=http://data.europa.eu/bkc/015.04.01.0850[17]
  • Practiced by: public health scientist[18], public health physician[19]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Zika Corpus[20], WikiProject COVID-19[21], Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[22]

Why It Matters

public health has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 76 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Related Entities

Australian Institute of Health and Wellness Barcelona Institute for Global Health Bibhash Nath Center for American Indian and Rural Health Equity Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Charles D. Flagle Dr. Tomás Perón Biological Institute Federal Office of Public Health Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute Girona Biomedical Research Institute Hans Rosling health health policy health sciences Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute Indiana University School of Medicine - South Bend Campus Institut de Recerca Sant Pau Institut Pasteur de Madagascar Marcelo F. C. Gomes Martine De Bruijne Pere Virgili Institute preventive medicine public health technology risk management Saint-Petersburg Pasteur Institute social science South Texas Diabetes & Obesity Institute Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Tonny J Oyana UK Health Security Agency

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . ncim-stage.nci.nih.gov. Retrieved . ncim-stage.nci.nih.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . National Agricultural Library Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . EuroVoc. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 16d ago · Ottawajin · 2026-09-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 79
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'ast', 'az', 'bg', 'bjn', 'bn', 'bs', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el',
    J-global id → 200906001859824318
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ J-global id: 200906001859824318, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/262258575|Public Health (#262258575)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7507|J-GLOBA"
  2. 24d ago · Mrwdat3 · 2026-09-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14483 → s/salud-publica
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14483: s/salud-publica, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/275041|batch #275041]]"
  3. 8w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Saxifragales
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  4. 11w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → public-health
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: public-health, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289949743|public health (#289949743)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's ta"
  5. 13w ago · Bencemac · 2026-07-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14483 → s/salud-publica
    "/* wbsetqualifier-add:1| */ Determination method or standard: record linkage, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/260985|batch #260985]]"
  6. 14w ago · EleJur · 2026-07-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14483 → s/salud-publica
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14483: s/salud-publica, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/260063|batch #260063]]"
  7. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0004359-verejne-zdravi
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0004359-verejne-zdravi, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  8. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 452, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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