Ministry of Health

Public health has many sub-fields, but typically includes the interdisciplinary categories of epidemiology, biostatistics and health services. Environmental health, community health, behavioral health, and occupational health are also important areas of public health. From ancient times, Christian emphasis on practical charity gave rise to the development of systematic nursing and hospitals and the Catholic Church today remains the largest non-government provider of medical services in the world. This is intended to ensure that the entire population has access to medical care on the basis of need rather than ability to pay.

• As of May 2022, more than 80 per cent of people had received at least one dose of a vaccine in high-income countries but the proportion is only about 17 per cent in low-income countries.
• Beverage taxes came into light with increasing concerns about obesity, particularly among youth.
• Between January 2020 and May 2021, the pandemic