The phrase "a public understanding" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a shared comprehension or agreement among the general population regarding a specific issue or topic.
Example: "The recent survey revealed a public understanding of the importance of environmental conservation."
Alternatives: "a collective awareness" or "a shared comprehension".
What is more, there was a public understanding of the need for this.
A public understanding of science is not well served by shackling science to a national-security state.
His personal experience of the chaos, destruction and gross inhumanity during the last months of Nazi rule helped to shape Mommsen's passionate commitment to widening a public understanding of how Germany could have produced such a collapse of civilisation.
The Terrence Higgins Trust says Farage should feel truly ashamed of himself, and that will be the sentiment of anyone aware of the hard work and effort applied by activists, politicians and millions of ordinary people to create a public understanding of HIV and remove its stigmas.
In the late 1980s, the seminal Bodmer report gave birth to a "public understanding of science" movement which – while initially criticised for its didactic approach – has evolved, refined, grown, spread into an entire academic discipline and accompanying profession – science communication (of which I have been practitioner for the best part of a decade).
"Because of Malala," he says, "there is a public understanding that something is wrong and has got to be done".
Thus, the cultural divide, whose origins are understandable – but not insurmountable – consequences of distinct career paths, is further aggravated by a public-understanding deficit in which science is viewed as inaccessible – a complex, mysterious craft carried out by eccentric people, often investigating obscure topics.
Moscow said it reflected a growing public understanding of the dangers of an attack.
The nomination of Dr. Francis S. Collins to lead the National Institutes of Health is a boon to the scientific endeavor, and also to a better public understanding of religion.
He said he hoped the WHO decision would lead to a greater public understanding of the condition: "It's often quite a secret illness.
But, seeking a better public understanding of Berkshire after it had become an insurance giant with the purchase of General Re, a leading reinsurer, Mr. Buffett invited Ms. Schroeder to delve into his company.
