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Can I get a degree at the undergraduate level in public health?
Yes. Many schools are beginning to offer undergraduate degrees (Bachelors of Public Health) or inter-disciplinary programs with public health focuses. The Princeton Review indicates as many as 84 schools are currently offering public health majors or related programs.
What courses would be required of a student majoring in public health at the undergraduate level?
The Princeton Review indicates that the typical college curriculum for public health includes:
- Biology I-II,
- General Chemistry,
- Organic Chemistry,
- General Psychology,
- Microbiology,
- Statistics,
- Introduction to Public Health,
- Introduction to Health Administration,
- Introduction to the U.S. Health Care System,
- Health and Public Policy,
- Epidemiology and
- Social and Behavioral Sciences in Public Health.
- Biology I-II,
- General Chemistry,
- Organic Chemistry,
- General Psychology,
- Microbiology,
- Statistics,
- Introduction to Public Health,
- Introduction to Health Administration,
- Introduction to the U.S. Health Care System,
- Health and Public Policy,
- Epidemiology and
- Social and Behavioral Sciences in Public Health.
For more information go to: http://www.review.com/majors
How is public health different from medicine (or the medical sciences)?
Public health and medicine are closely related. In fact, public health, as a discipline, was developed as a result of critical events in medical history.
Physicians that were caring for individual patients began to notice trends and multiple incidences of the same disease in patients in the same community or patients that interacted with people from an infected community. Such incidences became known as epidemics and the specialists that evaluated these diseases become known as Epidemiologists. Today, we still have Epidemiologists, but they are no longer required to be physicians.
Actually, the essential difference between public health and medicine, is that public health evaluates diseases and conditions (including external and internal factors that cause disese) that effect populations and communities. In regards to patient care, public health focuses on the health care management of patients rather than the care of individual patients which involves diagnosis and treatment, as in the medicial sciences.
Public health also includes several additional sub-specialities including preventive medicine, epidemiology, health policy, and environmental health sciences to name a few. Although, several public health professionals hold medical degrees (M.D., D.M.D., D.V.M), public health now offers its own doctoral degree, Doctor of Public Health (Dr.P.H or D.P.H).
Physicians that were caring for individual patients began to notice trends and multiple incidences of the same disease in patients in the same community or patients that interacted with people from an infected community. Such incidences became known as epidemics and the specialists that evaluated these diseases become known as Epidemiologists. Today, we still have Epidemiologists, but they are no longer required to be physicians.
Actually, the essential difference between public health and medicine, is that public health evaluates diseases and conditions (including external and internal factors that cause disese) that effect populations and communities. In regards to patient care, public health focuses on the health care management of patients rather than the care of individual patients which involves diagnosis and treatment, as in the medicial sciences.
Public health also includes several additional sub-specialities including preventive medicine, epidemiology, health policy, and environmental health sciences to name a few. Although, several public health professionals hold medical degrees (M.D., D.M.D., D.V.M), public health now offers its own doctoral degree, Doctor of Public Health (Dr.P.H or D.P.H).