"Medicine & Health 2008"

Public Health
Epidemiology and Disease Control
Programme Evaluation
Health Promotion
Health Services
Health Systems
Economics and Financing
Statistics
Population Studies

Public Health

Public Health aims at the prevention and maintenance of health not only of the individual but of a whole population. Its goal is to assimilate existing offers in prevention, curative care and rehabilitation. Public Health therefore does not concern medical personal alone but also politicians and social scientists.

Health systems worldwide, in rich as well as in poor countries, are facing big challenges. Graduates from research and training programs in the field of Public Health are therefore becoming more and more important as they are needed to help answer questions about how our health systems can be improved by choosing the right investments and interventions. They should therefore help develop new prevention strategies, study causes and help find possible answers to coming health challenges.

The following chapter is dedicated to this very wide spread topic of Public Health. It covers courses dealing with different "Health Systems" in poor and rich countries, courses about "Health Services", "Health Promotion", "Economics and Financing", "Epidemiology and Disease Control", "Statistics", "Population Studies" and finally courses dealing with the important topic of "Programme Evaluation" in order to back up health promotion efforts and prove its effectivity. Public Health master programs as well as short courses and congresses have been compiled. Target groups are doctors, qualified nursing personnel, social scientists and other professionals from the field of health, politics or economics from all over the world.