This course intends to survey the broad field of public health and serves as an introduction to the major issues of health and health care in general as well as in local community. The course defines and describes public health issues, and identifies potential problems and their solutions.

CILO-1: Describe the principal determinants of health and disease, including the determinants of inequalities in the health of groups differentiated by race, ethnicity, and economic status. CILO-2: Distinguish public health from other health sciences, and its unique contribution to the health of the public. CILO-3: Discuss the government’s responsibility for monitoring and improving the public's health. CILO-4: Use the basic approaches and purposes of the two major analytical methods in public health, epidemiology and biostatistics. CILO-5: Describe the biomedical basis of infectious and chronic diseases and congenital abnormalities. CILO-6: Describe the principal environmental determinants of health and the major environmental health issues of the present time. CILO-7: Discuss the role of public health in medical care and the principal problems in different health care systems. CILO-8: Examine the critical issues in global health, with a special focus on health in local community.