Public health includes the prevention, monitoring and treatment of major diseases, especially infectious diseases (such as tuberculosis, AIDS, SARS, etc.). ); Supervise and control food, medicine and public health, as well as related health promotion, health education and immunization. For example, the control, prevention and treatment of SARS are typical public health functions.
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In fact, as far as the classification of medical field is concerned, the connotation of the word "public health" is relatively clear: medical measures aimed at communities or society are different from those aimed at individuals in hospitals. Such as vaccination, health education, health supervision, disease prevention and control, and various epidemiological means. Of course, it is not entirely aimed at infectious diseases.
When economists (including health economists) mention the word "public health", they do not mean the medical connotation of "public health", but talk about health services from the perspective of economic theory or the means that should be paid by the government.