Public Health And Health Promotion in Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

Public Health And Health Promotion in Canterbury Christ Church University

Public Health and Health Promotion will equip you with the knowledge and skills necessary to meet the requirements of the public health workforce to practice as either a practitioner with a public health component to your work or as a specialist public health practitioner.

The Government is supporting the expansion of public health and health promotion, and wanting graduates to have a good understanding of the range of issues that cause ill health, and know how to improve people’s health and wellbeing. This course aims to meet these requirements.

Why Public health and Health promotion

Top reasons to choose this course

Our team has over 30 years’ experience of academic leadership and research at Canterbury Christ Church University in the field of public health and health promotion and we were one of the first universities to teach these subjects to undergraduate students.

What will i study?

Public Health and Health Promotion focuses on teaching and learning around the growing understanding that the prevention of ill health and promotion of health and wellbeing is far better for individuals and society than a sole focus on curing illness.

As a Public Health and Health Promotion student you will study the mental, emotional, social, physical, spiritual, political and environmental influences on health and how current Government policy aims to address these.

What can i do next?

The Public Health and Health Promotion degree programme aims to develop knowledge, skills and Graduate Attributes that a wide variety of employers, both in the private and public sectors, are looking for. This programme is particularly suitable to prepare you for a career in the health, social, leisure and education sectors. Throughout the course of the programme, we aim to prepare you for transition into meaningful employment or further study.

The degree programme provides suitable entry qualifications which will contribute to becoming a registered health promotion or public health practitioner. It also opens up routes into teaching, through PGCE, and prepare you for further postgraduate study at all levels through to PhD. This programme is normally accepted for entry graduate­ entry into health professional and social work programmes of study.

Typical areas of employment that you can enter after completing this degree programme are:

• Commissioning public health services
• Public health intelligence and surveillance
• Health trainer
• Project management: bid writing, community engagement and empowerment
• Health policy and electoral reform
• Health research
• Communicating health information through social marketing and health-related media
• Health services improvement and administration
• Criminal justice system work in prisons and probation
• Housing support, welfare and citizen’s advice

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