This free course, Introducing public health, uses several activities to introduce two important public health issues: factors that influence health and ill-health; and the scope of public health work.
Consider how to use your study of this course, for example by recording your ideas in the word document provided. In addition, you can note your ideas in a notebook or in an electronic journal. If you are a public health practitioner you may wish to use your work to help build portfolio evidence of your public health knowledge and skills. If you enjoy this course you can also study other OpenLearn courses on public health:
Level 1: Public health approaches to infectious disease
Level 2: Public health and mental health promotion
This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course K311 Promoting public health: skills, perspectives and practice .
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