The term is derived from the primarily nocturnal habits of the owl. Usually, people who are night owls stay awake past midnight and extreme night owls may stay awake until just before or after dawn.
By Suzanne Ridgway. Lllian Wald was born into a comfortable Jewish family in 1867, but chose to work in the tenements of New York City. She coined the phrase âpublic health nursingâ and is considered to be the founder of that profession. Lillian was educated at a private boarding school.
Public health: The approach to medicine that is concerned with the health of the community as a whole. Public health is community health. It has been said that: Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time.. The mission of public health is to fulfill society's interest in assuring conditions in which people can be healthy.. The three core public health functions are: