Learn About Public Health
Complete/read/watch everything on this page, then take a quiz in the final survey to receive your certificate for the program!
1. What is public health?
Public Health is an area that is crucial to the healthcare field. Its main goals are to improve healthcare for everyone across the world, by studying different aspects of healthcare, including access and disparities. Public health also studies prevention of health conditions, health policy, and heavily focuses on equity. Though it may seem like a small field, it's actually very diverse and has a broad range of professions and concentrations!
2. WHat are health disparities?
Health disparities are large differences in the status of the health of someone's community or healthcare access that are preventable and can be avoided by preventative care and attention. Community health differences often lead to worse health outcomes, which include lower lifespan, higher disease burden, and often generational effects. These disparities can be eliminated by those who study public health. The causes of healthcare disparities are to the left, in the diagram.
3. Video Interviews
Watch these two video interviews conducted by the project leader with two women of color in the public health field!
5. External Video
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