doctor of public health

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   a doctor's degree in preventive medicine

   SynonymsDPH

   Broaderdoctor's degree

Questions about doctor of public health

What does doctor of public health mean?

doctor of public health means "a doctor's degree in preventive medicine".

What is another word for doctor of public health?

Close synonyms include DPH. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is doctor of public health a common word?

doctor of public health is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.