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There are many distinctions that can be made between public health and the clinical health professions. While public health is comprised of few professional disciplines such as medicine, dentistry, nursing, optometry, nutrition, social work, environmental sciences, health education, health services administration, and the behavioral sciences, its activities focus on entire populations rather than on individual patients.