Preferred Name |
Public Health |
ID |
http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C17039 |
ALT_DEFINITION |
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. |
code |
C17039 |
DEFINITION |
The science and practice of protecting and improving the health of a community, as by preventive medicine, health education, control of communicable diseases, application of sanitary measures, and monitoring of environmental hazards. |
label |
Public Health |
Legacy_Concept_Name |
Public_Health |
Preferred_Name |
Public Health |
prefixIRI |
C17039 |
prefLabel |
Public Health |
Semantic_Type |
Biomedical Occupation or Discipline |
UMLS_CUI |
C0034019 |
subClassOf |