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Public Health Department
Head of Department:
Dr. Adel bin Abdulrahman Abulkhail
Office :
Buraydah - Qassim University - Building A2 - Floor 2
Phone number :
0163013811
e-mail:
amc.ph@qu.edu.sa
Vision
A nationally recognized department of excellence in public health, supporting research and evidence-based public health programs at the national and regional level.
Mission
Providing high-quality educational programs in the field of public health, providing community services and applied research that benefit the local community, and building channels of cooperation and partnership with relevant public health sectors regionally and nationally.
Overview
The Department of Public Health is one of the core departments in the health field, which aims to promote community health and prevent diseases through scientific research, health education, and the development of health policies and programs.
Academic programs :
Objectives :
1- Preparing competent graduates to meet the challenges of public health according to national and international standards.
2- Participate in community service and awareness to recognize public health obligations to the community.
3- Conducting impactful research to provide the framework for evidence-based practice to implement public health strategies.
4- Supporting ethics and integrity in academic, scientific and administrative affairs.
5- Promoting innovations, partnerships and collaboration with various public and private organizations in the public health sector.
6- Ensure the professional advancement of stakeholders through trainings and continuous professional development activities.
Educational goals:
I: Knowledge of community health and its determinants:
1. Define public health and the relevant roles and responsibilities of government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and private organizations.
2- Describe the risk factors and modes of transmission of infectious and chronic diseases, and how these diseases affect both personal and public health.
3) List the main causes of mortality and morbidity, and health disparities between local, regional and global populations.
4) Discuss the role of gender, race, ethnicity, and other demographic factors in influencing population health.
5- Discuss key local, national and global health challenges.
6- Explain how organizational structure, financing, personal health care delivery and public health services affect community health.
7. Summarize the assessment and control of environmental risks affecting the health of the community.
8- Recognize basic medical sciences as a major source of knowledge for public health fields.
Secondly: Cognitive, intellectual and scientific skills:
1- Summarize, compare, analyze, and interpret learning according to public health concepts and components.
2- Selecting data useful for monitoring health care delivery programs.
3- Summarize, compare, analyze and interpret selected statistics to monitor health care delivery systems and programs.
4) Prioritize key issues to improve public health components (e.g. environment and nutrition; communicable and non-communicable diseases) and key issues to improve health care programs (e.g. school health and reproductive health).
5- Applying learning within the framework of public health concepts and its components, and proposing actions required to improve the current state of public health, reproductive health and care in Saudi Arabia in particular and in general for any other country in a similar situation.
Third: Personal and social responsibility:
After completing the program's courses students should have acquired all personal skills and responsibility in the areas of:
1- Leadership:
Control
A. Students should be able to evaluate and write proposals.
b. Students must be trusted counselors and experienced public health assistants.
Making decisions
a. Students are able to identify and weigh appropriate evidence to make a decision.
b. Students must be able to take responsibility for decisions and their consequences.
Authorization
A. Take responsibility for determining when and if another person can be asked to make a decision or carry out a task.
B. Distribution of responsibility and authority.
Motivating others
2- Networks:
a. Students should be able to actively seek to identify and establish effective contacts with others.
b. Students should be able to obtain information about people with useful contacts.
3.3 Teamwork:
a. Students must be able to work collaboratively and productively with other team members.
b. Students should be able to encourage others to come up with solutions, listen carefully to their ideas and provide constructive feedback.
IV: Communication skills, information technology, and numerical skills:
1- Presenting, demonstrating and explaining research and explaining the concepts of public health, its components and its application to improve the current public health care system.
2- Understanding computer applications.
3) Understand and use advanced related public health software such as EPI information, epidemiological information, spss, and web sites related to the cells and organs of the human body.
4- Utilizing the Internet in public health.
5- Using electronic journals and databases.