What does PHU stand for?

Public Health Unit

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

Military and Government
Science, medicine, engineering, etc.

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Hlathikhulu Government Hospital also serves a referral for a number of clinics and public health units (PHU) in the Shiselweni region.

Swaziland : Govt awards E185m tenders

Common is equally jazzed by an upcoming $22-million project which will be the new campus home of the Algoma Public Health unit.

Sault College digs itself a hole: college construction keeps up with ...

This immunization is not mandatory in any province; however, during an influenza outbreak in a healthcare facility, public health units have the mandate to withdraw from the workplace health-care workers who are not immunized.

Ethics in practice: nurses' ethical considerations in a pandemic or ...

We've identified the pathogen, we've confirmed it, we've sequenced the virus and if you look at what's happening now, every physician across Ontario and probably every physician across Canada has had notification from their public health unit about what's happening," McGeer said.

Asia readies for swine flu after hard past lessons

But the concept for the project comes straight from the heart of Mort Laitner, JD, chief legal counsel for the Miami-Dade County Public Health Unit.

Florida health department raises awareness using storytelling

These activities should also be supported by public health unit staff, and parents and teachers as positive role models," said lead researcher, Maureen Dobbins, who works at the School of Nursing at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada.

School-based physical activity benefits even if it doesn't help lose ...

There have been no reports of disease, but temporary public health units, each manned by half a dozen doctors and nurses, have been set up on streets in Dujiangyan, Yingxiu, Mianyang, Zipingpu and other affected areas.

One week on, focus shifts towards preventing disease