Community Health

B.P.H. (Community Health)
Occupation
Able to perform in Public Health in public and private sectors, also self-employed, such as:
1. Public Health Academic in Health Promoting Hospital Authority
2. Public Health Academic in the Ministry of Public Health
3. Lecturer/teacher in public health sectors
4. Public Health Academic in the local government.
5. Public health officials in private organizations
6. private job involved in public health
7. Hospital Management

Significance
Faculty of Public Health and Environment, Pathumthani University realized that the health population issues is concerned in many sectors and its priority issue to reduce the problems. In additional, trend of Thai Public health are changed, especially Aseptic or Chronic disease that came from the health behaviors. As a result, the government has lost more budget to spend on the public health care. In point of fact, health problems are preventable problems. As a result, the public health service guidelines have been adapted to proactive strategies that focus on health promotion and disease control by integrated to the community and population are involved in preventing, monitoring and maintaining their own health problems themselves. Based on the analysis of society’s needs for public health courses by collecting data from health sectors and the results of meeting with experts from the institution of Public Health and Ministry of Public Health, It was found that society needs graduates in public health, for this reason, it is necessary to produce graduates in this field to meet the needs of society and to provide adequate public health personnel to solve problems and enhance public health. This will lead to a healthy population.

Objectives
1. Apply knowledge to promote health and prevent illness.
2. Provide occupational health and safety advice on work and environmental health.
3. Prevent, disease control and solve public health problems effectively.
4. Provide basic health services for preliminary assessment and treatment and emergency public health services.
5. Analyze the problem and plan for community health solutions.
6. Public health and environmental quality management.
7. Manage consumer health protection
8. Research and develop to create innovative project in public health.
9. Lifelong learning and Developing themselves
10. Leadership in Health sector and effectively coordinate with other.
11. Have moral ethics and code of conduct profession in the community public health