Profiles in Public Health
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Public health is all efforts aimed at helping people live their healthiest lives.
As a Latina I discovered how important public health is to my community and wish to work towards increasing the health of undeserved and minority populations.
The most rewarding experience has been becoming aware of a different view of medicine regarding our entire country and world. And learning how health disparities and inequities continue the cycle of sickness, poverty, and mortality.
Laboratory research is my first love but I wanted to do more with people and not just with cells and DNA, and epidemiology wound up being an excellent fit.
Public health is ultimately about coming together as a community to better ourselves, our environment, and our interactions through evidence-based practices that center around health outcomes and the social determinants of health.
Public health is the silent hero protecting everyone from you to me.
Public Health is the complete wellbeing of the population and the planet in which we live!
Public health is a method of preventing diseases and infections from occurring, improving the quality of life, and working with racial disparities at a population level rather than an individual scope.
Public Health means prevention and helping to implement behavior change to create healthier people and communities.