At other consultations, the term public health was strongly preferred to population health as the name of the domain (although a 'population health approach' was allowed as a method used by public health). There is also a widespread view among public health experts that the general public commonly confuses or equates public health with public hospitals, or the health system funded from the public purse. Some practitioners saw the rise in the popularity of the term 'population health' as an opportunity to gain agreement on an allencompassing definition and to replace the often misunderstood term 'public health'.