Public health sets safety standards and policies to promote, as well as protect the health of people in every community where they live, learn, work and play.
What does a public health professional do?
- Unite community health services with underserved and those at risk to assure the conditions in which they live are healthy
- Evaluate potential issues and screen the health status of a community
- Connect people with the appropriate resources to assist with health issues
- Advocates for and implement community health policies, plans and laws
- Explore, analyze, and respond to health problems and hazards in the community
- Develop diverse and trained public health and personal health care workforce
- Works to limit health disparities with robust organizational structure for public health
- Employ judicial measures to safeguard health and safety
- Communicating the ways to stay healthy and giving science-based solutions to problems
- Organize and collaborate with community partnerships to recognize and answer health problems
Fields in Public Health
- Public policymakers
- Environmental scientists
- Life, physical and social science technicians
- Scientists and researchers
- Mental health and substance abuse social workers
- Social and human services
- Social scientists
- Urban and regional planners
- Nutritionists
- Epidemiologists
- Public health caregivers
Public Health Resources
Public Health Occupations
- Government agencies: (CDC), the (NIH), (OSHA), (FDA) or the (EPA), to name just a few.
- State and local health departments or agencies, such as the , the , or the .
- Nonprofits, such as the , or the
- Health care organizations
- Private sector companies
- Colleges and universities
