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Guest View: What is public health?
Public health defies easy descriptors common to other fields of medicine, like “doctor for adults” or “doctor for kids.” Consequently, the public may not know the many ways that public health impacts our lives on a daily basis. As we approach National Public Health Week 2015 (April 6-12), I would like to take this opportunity to describe what we do, how we do it, and why we do it.