When you graduate theÊBSc Public Heath (Hons) at Cardiff Metropolitan University youÕll be able to identify and assess the health of individuals, groups and communities, and identify particularly vulnerable groups. Working with people from across a range of organisations and professional backgrounds, youÕll design, plan and apply interventions to promote and protect peopleÕs health.Ê?
Public Health is about helping people to stay healthy and protecting them from threats to their health. Sometimes public health activities involve helping individuals, at other times they involve dealing with wider factors that have an impact on the health of many people (for example an age-group, an ethnic group, a locality, or a country). Work in public health contributes to reducing the causes of ill-health and improving people's health and wellbeing.
There are three main areas of Public Health work:
- Health Protection - protecting people's health from environmental or biological threats, such as food poisoning or radiation, or by tackling the health effects of climate change in the UK or overseas
- Health Improvement - improving people's health, for example by helping people quit smoking, or improving their living conditions
- Healthcare Public Health - ensuring that our health and care services are the most effective, most efficient and equally accessible
Public Health issues appear regularly in the media Ð from growing rates of obesity to bio-terrorism and the advent of new diseases. There has never been a better time to join in the effort to promote and protect the health of populations in the UK and around the world. If you believe passionately about improving and protecting people's health and wellbeing, then public health is the career for you.
Employability & Careers:
Working in public health is about helping people to stay healthy and protecting them from threats to their health. There are six main areas that people work in within public health:
- Improving people's health
- Protecting people's health
- Working with information
- Teaching and researching
- Maintaining and raising standards
- Leadership, planning and management
Most public health roles will touch upon more than one of the six areas, but identifying those which appeal most to you should help you to identify roles of interest to you.
