Handbook

You will learn to describe and evaluate the principles of public health, health promotion and primary health care as they relate to various social, political and economic contexts. You will acquire a deeper understanding of behavioural, environmental, sociocultural, political and organisational factors that promote or compromise health. You will identify and evaluate the range of evidence that informs public health practice, evidence on which public health policies and programs are based. The subject will assist you to examine the strategies used in public health in the context of public health planning frameworks. The various aspects of public health will be reviewed such as surveillance and monitoring, community-based approaches, protection and prevention and the promotion of health.