Category: P

A model for the prevention of health problems that focuses on the host agent-environment relationship.  

A specialized area of public health concerned with the application of knowledge and skills to the planning, implementation, management, and evaluation of activities of health professional disciplines and health problems.  

As conceived by Winslow, the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health and well-being through organized community effort for the sanitation of the environment, the control of communicable infections, the organization of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis and prevention of disease, the education of the individual in personal…

Community health educator.  

An official, governmental tax supported organization mandated by law for the protection and improvement of the health of the general public, private health agency.  

A statement released describing findings of a health issue of significant urgency to require public action. The includes recommended measures to reduce human risk and eliminate or substantially mitigate human exposure to the threat.  

An opportunity for the general public to comment on findings or proposed activities.  

The joint formed by the union of the bodies of the pubic bones in the median plane, characterized by a thick mass of fibrocartilage. A piece of cartilage which joins the two sections of the pubic bone.  

Small insects that infest the genital-rectal region of the body. Parasitic insects found in the human genital areas; infestation with pubic lice is one of the sexually transmitted diseases. Pubic lice (crabs) are parasites which may be spread sexually or non-sexually. They are usually found in pubic hairs and cause itching. Tiny insects that infest…

Early onset of puberty as a result of a glandular disturbance.