Public Health at the Workplace
About This Course
In the last hundred years, the role of the workplace in public health has evolved to encompass the continuum of health of the individual worker and to support greater public health efforts (such as pandemic and chronic disease control). This course allows students to apply public health strategies and considerations to manage health issues and related challenges in the workplace setting. Students will learn about the issues that influence both the health of the worker and the worker’s ability to work in different settings, and the approaches to addressing these issues.
Students will explore how to safeguard the health and fitness of employees in the workplace. They will also analyse the role of workplaces in controlling infectious and chronic diseases. Specific topics such as ethics of workplace health, vulnerable populations in the workplace, and post-pandemic workplace safety and health will be covered.
What You'll Learn
1. Appraise key public health systems at the workplace.
2. Analyse the role of the workplace in infectious and chronic disease control.
3. Illustrate linkage of the determinants of health and fitness to work of the working population.
4. Describe and apply the approaches to safeguard the health and fitness to work of the working population.
Entry Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree
• Relevant public health related work experience
• Candidates with other qualifications and experience may be considered on a case by case basis, subject to approval