Public Health

About this course

Public health is concerned with protecting and improving the health of populations rather than treating individual patients. It asks how diseases spread and how they can be prevented, what social and environmental factors determine who gets ill and who stays well, and how health systems and services can be designed and delivered most effectively for communities. It draws on epidemiology, biostatistics, social science, policy analysis and health promotion to produce evidence-based approaches to some of the most consequential questions a society can face. At Anglia Ruskin University this three-year full-time programme covers the breadth of public health practice, from supporting individuals and communities to improve their health and wellbeing, to preventing the spread of communicable disease, to ensuring the accessibility and suitability of health and care services. You will learn to int

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 81% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 1% of graduatescards →
• 40 / 100Sales occupations · 4% of graduatescards →
• 10 / 100Health associate professionals · 4% of graduatescards →
• 8 / 100Other Health Professionals · 69% of graduatescards →
• 8 / 100Therapy professionals · 3% of graduatescards →

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