Basics of Public Health

Background

This course - orginally an Open Online Course (OOC) - has been prepared by, and contains material from, Peoples-uni, an educational initiative providing online Public Health capacity building for health professionals. The course provides basic introduction to key aspects of the discipline of public health. You may want to explore other courses on this site if you wish to acquire more in-depth knowledge of any particular aspect.

Note: if you want to gain a certificate for completing this course, you will have to create an account and log in as a student.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

We hope that after going through this resource, you will:

• Understand the broad concepts and issues in public health

• Particularly understand the health systems of countries of interest to you.

How to navigate the course

Each topic comprises some introductory remarks. To access resources we think you will find interesting - click on the collections of resources in each section. There is a forum in each topic for reflection and each topic also has a quiz  to check your understanding of some of the concepts in that topic. Again click on the hyperlinks to take you to these items in each topic.

We encourage you to reflect on what you have learned or comment on the course. When you click on the hyperlink in each forum labelled reflection, you will be able to add a new topic or respond to a previous one. You may want to share your learning from this and other readings, comment on the topics from your own experience, comment on others' posts, or provide feedback on how we can improve the content and presentation.

In the final topic you will see that you can gain a Certificate of Completion - the requirements for this are to view the resources and post a reflection in each topic and complete the quiz. This is a self-directed course, to be taken at your own pace.