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Prenatal vitamins are vitamin and mineral supplements intended to be taken before and during pregnancy and during postnatal lactation.

Although not intended to replace a healthy diet, prenatal vitamins provide women of child bearing age with nutrients recognized by the various health organizations including the American Dietetic Association as helpful for a healthy pregnancy outcome.

It may be appropriate to start taking prenatal vitamins once the female enters childbearing age.

Probiotics are microorganisms that are believed to provide health benefits when consumed.

The term probiotic is currently used to name ingested microorganisms associated with benefits for humans and animals.

The term came into more common use after 1980.

The introduction of the concept is generally attributed to Nobel laureate Élie Metchnikoff, who postulated that yogurt-consuming Bulgarian peasants lived longer lives because of this custom.

He suggested in 1907 that "the dependence of the intestinal microbes on the food makes it possible to adopt measures to modify the flora in our bodies and to replace the harmful microbes by useful microbes".

A significant expansion of the potential market for probiotics has led to higher requirements for scientific substantiation of putative benefits conferred by the microorganisms.

A multivitamin is a preparation intended to be a dietary supplement with vitamins, dietary minerals, and other nutritional elements.

Such preparations are available in the form of tablets, capsules, pastilles, powders, liquids, and injectable formulations.

Other than injectable formulations, which are only available and administered under medical supervision, multivitamins are recognized by the Codex Alimentarius Commission (the United Nations' authority on food standards) as a category of food.

A dietary supplement is intended to provide nutrients that may otherwise not be consumed in sufficient quantities.

Public health refers to "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting human health through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals." It is concerned with threats to health based on population health analysis.

The population in question can be as small as a handful of people, or as large as all the inhabitants of several continents (for instance, in the case of a pandemic).

The dimensions of health can encompass "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity," as defined by the United Nations' World Health Organization.

Public health incorporates the interdisciplinary approaches of epidemiology, biostatistics and health services.

Environmental health, community health, behavioral health, health economics, public policy, mental health and occupational safety and health are other important subfields.