Interactive Discussion Forum on Lecture-02

Disscussion 2

Disscussion 2

by Mabia Khatun -
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Do you think that studying Fundamentals of Public Health as a Course should be mandatory for all University students across Bangladesh? 

Answer: Yes, It should be. Public health is the science of protecting and improving the health of people and communities. This work is achieved by promoting healthy lifestyles, researching disease and injury preventions, and detecting, preventing and responding to infectious diseases. In a nutshell, public health is concerned with protecting the health of the entire population. The population can be as small as a local neighbourhood, or as big as the entire country or an entire region of the world. Public health professionals try to prevent problems from happening or repeating 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. In the department of health and family planning, public health graduates have to meet the demands of doctors. But if the number of public health graduates increases, they will be able to perform this responsibility better. Besides, there is a public employment opportunity for public health graduates under the public health engineering department, environment, nutrition planning and other ministries. Lastly, if you want to present your country to the world court, you can definitely do that through a public health education and research on your country.