...the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical and mental health through organized community efforts for the sanitation...community infections, the education of the individual in the principles of personal hygiene, the organization of medical and nursing services for the early...

...ours): the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health and well-being through organized community efforts for the sanitation of the environment, the control of communicable infections, the organization of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis and...

...health movement. In 1920, Yale professor Edward Amory Winslow defined public health as the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting...environment, the control of community infections, = Q the education of the individual in principles of personal hygiene, the orga- ~ nization of medical...

...of modern public health in the United States, 80 years ago defined public health as: the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting...the sanitation of the environment, the control of communicable infections, the education of the individual in personal hygiene, the organization of medical...

...approach, Winslow, in a World Health Organisation monograph, defined public health as the 'Science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting physical health and efficiency through organised community efforts ... and the development of social machinery which will ensure to every...

...venereal disease, the constructive efforts of the social worker must sooner or later be called into play. "Public health is the science and the art of preventing...and promoting physical health and efficiency through organised community efforts for the sanitation of the environment, the control of community infections,...