TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Structure and Function of the Public Health System in the United States A1 - Quade, Thomas A1 - Love, Kailey A1 - Riley, William A2 - Boulton, Matthew L. A2 - Wallace, Robert B. Y1 - 2022 N1 - T2 - Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health & Preventive Medicine, 16e AB - Public health is defined as “the efforts organized by society to protect, promote, and restore the people’s health…directed to the maintenance and improvement of the health of all the people through collective or social actions.”1 The public health system is a complex network of organizations working together collectively to assure conditions in which society can be healthy.2,3 This system includes a wide array of government agencies, private organizations, public health departments, community health centers, healthcare systems, advocacy groups, the media, and social service agencies. The governmental role to protect the public’s health is represented by public health agencies at several levels of responsibility: federal, tribal, state, territorial, and local.4 SN - PB - McGraw Hill CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182685519 ER -