Public Health BSc (Hons)

This course conveys ideas about a healthier population across the world. It’s principles and guiding values consider public health as having the responsibility to protect and improve the health of all people, especially the elderly, children, the poor and the deprived.Along with the broad perspective on general aspects of public health, this course aims to provide you with foundational knowledge and skills across the pillars of public health – prevention, protection and promotion. The curriculum explores your grasp of the strategies for disease and ill-health prevention, embracing multifaceted and collective actions for health promotion and protection in response to emerging challenges facing public health practitioners.**Key Course Benefits*** Students who choose this course should benefit by exploring disease determinants and risks, considering how to deliver and improve health care quality, and influence policy through understanding complex interactions between health, society and the environment.* You should understand health as a global concern that transcends local and national boundaries and learn to assess, design and implement interventions.* You should be prepared to fit into senior positions and make an immediate impact within the sector, due to competence in planning and implementing evidence-based health programmes that are more responsive to population health needs at the local, national and international levels.