Glossary

Help us create a bilingual, plain language glossary of public health terms—a quick reference for words on this site (such as those below, taken from the first few paragraphs of Celebrating Public Health):

• typhoid fever
• smallpox
• communicable diseases
• diphtheria
• German measles
• whooping cough
• infant mortality rate
• tuberculosis
• bacteriology
• antitoxins
• toxoids
• diagnostic and effective therapeutic tools
• sanitary chemistry
• chlorination
• sewage treatment facilities
• pasteurization of milk
• sanatoriums  
• venereal diseases

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