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Links to Illinois-based public health and safety organizations, programs, and resources.

Public health and safety is an interdisciplinary science and practice of protecting and improving health of communities and populations.

Public health includes such diverse topics as preventive medicine; health education and promotion; sanitation and hygiene; communicable-disease control; emergency medical services; assessment and monitoring and organization of health services and policies. Comparable terms for public health medicine include social medicine and community medicine.

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