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- Title
So what does a public health physician do, exactly? Two lessons from the pandemic.
- Authors
Wu, Nancy
- Abstract
Thanks to the unprecedented circumstances of the past two years, the term "public health" is on the tongues of healthcare community members and laypeople alike more than ever. It is our duty as healthcare trainees and professionals to understand clearly what the practice of public health and preventive medicine entails, so that we may understand where we stand relative to it, and so that we may speak about it responsibly both in and out of this shared community we call medicine. Here, two key points about PHPM are discussed, with vignettes from COVID-19: one, that public health physicians are highly trained specialists; and two, that they are concerned with protecting and promoting the health of communities.
- Subjects
PUBLIC health; PREVENTIVE health services; UNITED States. Public Health Service; PHYSICIANS; COVID-19 pandemic; HEALTH promotion
- Publication
University of Toronto Medical Journal, 2022, Vol 99, Issue 1, p12
- ISSN
0833-2207
- Publication type
Article