Introduction to Public Health
Public Health is the science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities. This work is achieved by promoting healthy lifestyles, researching diseases and injury prevention and detecting, preventing and responding to infectious diseases. Public health is basically concerned with protecting the health of entire populations. These populations can be small as a local neighbourhood or as big as an entire country or region of the world.
The main aim of public health professionals is trying to prevent problems from happening or recurring through implementing educational programmes, 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. Public health also works to limit health disparities. A large part of public health is promoting healthcare equity, quality and accessibility.
Few lines about Bachelor of Public Health (BPH)
The Bachelor of Public Health is a 4-year undergraduate programme that is divided into 8- semesters and deals with the concepts of public health. The course will train the students in areas such as human health, diseases, health and nutrition, public health policies, communication skills, environmental health, health economics, etc.
The main aim of the course is to train students and turn them into health workers. The course is responsible for developing a skilled workforce of public health workers in the nation. The course covers a broad spectrum of the sub-disciplines such as community health, environmental health, behavioural health, mental health, reproductive health, etc.
Eligibility for Bachelor of Public Health (BPH)
The students who have completed PUC or 10+2 with PCB or CBZ from recognised board are eligible to apply for Bachelor of Public Health (BPH) course. Some times some colleges will also accept the PUC or 10+2 students from any stream for this course.
Admission Procedures
The eligible students can join the BPH course via two modes of admission processes. The first one is through the merit admission process and second one is the direct admission process.
1. Merit Admission Process
There are many reputed educational institutes that conduct institution-based entrance exams for admission to BPH course, such mode of admission is called merit-based admission. Every college will have some limited number of merit seats that are offered under merit quota. The eligible students are required to appear and qualify the institution-based entrance exam course in order to get merit seats. The main idea to conduct merit seats is to filter out the serious and hardworking students from non-serious ones. The students who have qualified the institution- based entrance exam are allotted these merit seats based on their marks and rankings. The fees are generally nominal for merit quota.
