Pre-Health Discussion Forum: Public Health; why is it important?

Public health is the science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities. This work is achieved by promoting healthy lifestyles, researching disease and injury prevention, and detecting, preventing and responding to infectious diseases. Overall, 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 or region of the world. Public health professionals try to prevent problems from happening or recurring through implementing educational programs, recommending policies, administering services and conducting research—in contrast to clinical professionals like doctors and nurses, who focus primarily on treating individuals after they become sick or injured. Public health also works to limit health disparities. A large part of public health is promoting healthcare equity, quality, and accessibility. Join us for a discussion on why public health practice is important and how it can influence a physicians clinical practice. Please read the attached article.

Categories	audience::Students
When	Oct 04, 2018 from 01:00 pm to 02:00 pm
Hosting organization	Pre-Health Advising
Speaker	N/A
Speaker Information	N/A
Where	Hunter East 710
Contact Email	premed@hunter.cuny.edu
Contact Phone	2127725244
Add event to calendar	vCal iCal