Public Health
Name : Traviata Prakarti
Student Number : 1206211606
Faculty of Public Health, A201
Writing Task page 146
“The Reason Why I Choose Public Health Program” Public health is the science and art of protecting and improving the health of communities through education, promotion of healthy lifestyles, and research for disease and injury prevention. Public health is concerned with protecting the health of entire populations. These populations can be as small as a local neighborhood, or as big as an entire country. Public health can make a difference in the lives of tens, hundreds, and even thousands or millions. Public health program is very important beause these are some of the threats to our health that we will be facing in the years to come such as avian influenza, HIV/AIDS, obesity, cancer, bioterrorism, domestic violence, substance abuse, mental health, drug resistant diseases, emerging and re-emerging diseases, environmental toxins, inequities in health care access and manymore. Most experts agree that these problems can't be tackled with new medical findings or cures; it is up to public health to protect us from these threats. Seeing the health problems such as highly increasing of disease prevalence, public health offers the best solution program because public health is a very diverse and dynamic field incorporating many disciplines that consist of biology, sociology, mathematics, anthropology, public policy, computer science, business, environmental science, communications, etc. This means, public health is multidisciplinary. Public health professionals try to prevent problems from happening or re-occurring through implementing educational programs, developing policies, administering services, and conducting research, in contrast to clinical professional, such as doctors and nurses, who focus primarily on treating individuals after they become sick or injured. There's something for everyone in public health. Some of the
Student Number : 1206211606
Faculty of Public Health, A201
Writing Task page 146
“The Reason Why I Choose Public Health Program” Public health is the science and art of protecting and improving the health of communities through education, promotion of healthy lifestyles, and research for disease and injury prevention. Public health is concerned with protecting the health of entire populations. These populations can be as small as a local neighborhood, or as big as an entire country. Public health can make a difference in the lives of tens, hundreds, and even thousands or millions. Public health program is very important beause these are some of the threats to our health that we will be facing in the years to come such as avian influenza, HIV/AIDS, obesity, cancer, bioterrorism, domestic violence, substance abuse, mental health, drug resistant diseases, emerging and re-emerging diseases, environmental toxins, inequities in health care access and manymore. Most experts agree that these problems can't be tackled with new medical findings or cures; it is up to public health to protect us from these threats. Seeing the health problems such as highly increasing of disease prevalence, public health offers the best solution program because public health is a very diverse and dynamic field incorporating many disciplines that consist of biology, sociology, mathematics, anthropology, public policy, computer science, business, environmental science, communications, etc. This means, public health is multidisciplinary. Public health professionals try to prevent problems from happening or re-occurring through implementing educational programs, developing policies, administering services, and conducting research, in contrast to clinical professional, such as doctors and nurses, who focus primarily on treating individuals after they become sick or injured. There's something for everyone in public health. Some of the