The Learners' Dictionary of Public Health terminology has been developed as part of a European project titled Specialist English for European Public Health by an international team of experts from Poland, Lithuania, the United Kingdom and Holland.

Definitions of English language terms, concepts and expressions commonly used in the multidisciplinary practice of Public Health have been clarified and where possible simplified to facilitate English Language learning for students studying in this rapidly growing discipline. Language terms have been organised into the seven main domains of public health namely: epidemiology and biostatistics, environmental health and occupational health, health promotion, health policy and management, ethics and law, as well as economics and finance.

The main intended users of the glossary include students of Public Health, Public Health researchers and lecturers, teachers of specialist English, professionals and practitioners, who often work in international institutions, translators working for the EU and other international institutions, who should take into account the context of Public Health in their work.

The main strength of the approach taken to produce this glossary is the close and ongoing collaboration between a range of Public Health specialists from different domains in public health and teachers of English. This has facilitated a close integration of specialised content with state-of-the-art theory and methodology of teaching English.

The development of the dictionary was divided into five stages. In stage one, ten representative scientific articles were collected, from each of the seven domains of Public Health. These were reviewed by public health specialists, students and practitioners from each domain.