Public Health

Stack locations for books on topics in the field of Public Health are located across the stacks due to the interdisciplinary nature of public health. Below are common call numbers and stack locations for a variety of subject areas in the fields of public health.

RA- Public Aspects of Medicine
Stack Level 5

Subclass

• RA 1-418.5 - Medicine and the state
• RA 421-790.95 - Public health. Hygiene, Preventive medicine.
• RA 791-954 - Medical geography. Climatology. Meteorology.
• RA 960-1000.5 - Medical centers. Hospitals. Dispensaries. Clinics.
• RA 1001-1171 - Forensic medicine. Medical jurisprudence. Legal medicine.
• RA 1190-1270 - Toxicology. Poisons.

For more subclasses in the Recreation, Leisure classification, see the LOC Classification outline.

H - Social Sciences

• HG 9371-9399 - Health Insurance
• HV - Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology.

K - Law

• K 3566-3578 - Public health in law
• KB 3075-3096.5 - Public health in religious law
• KBM 3075-3097 - Public health in Jewish law
• KBP 3075-3096.5 - Public health in Islamic law

L - Education

• LB 3401-3495 - School hygiene. School health services.

For more subclasses in the Medicine classification, see the LOC Classification outline.

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Subject Headings
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