Department of Public Health

INFORMATION ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

Public health is a multi-disciplinary field that aims to prevent disease and death, promote a better quality of life, and create environmental conditions in which people can be healthy by intervening at the institutional, community, and societal level. As an academic discipline, public health has evolved as a practice from time immemorial as self-preservation, a fundamental instinct that is as timeless as the human evolution itself.

The academic field of public health started as a small field which has grown and expanded over time and is still on its way to achieving HEALTH FOR ALL. The Department of Public Health in Fountain University is one of the four Departments under the College of Basic Medical and Health Sciences (COBMEHS). In line with the Philosophy of the B.Sc. Public Health programme, the Department aim to produce highly motivated graduates of high academic standard with adequate Public Health exposure who can function adequately in the field of Public Health with a broad based academic professional training and competence that reflect the emphasis on the current national preventive health care system and services. Therefore, the degree to be awardable within the Department is B. Sc. Public Health.

The resource verification exercise was done last year, 07th of December, 2020, and presently; the Department is in her third year of the academic program. Students in the Department are being exposed to different practical experiences in the field of Public Health and are also being groomed on how to give standard and comprehensive feedback to the populace about their discoveries. One of such was the Oshara Community Medical Outreach organized as an intervention as a fallout from the community diagnosis exercise.

They have equally been posted to selected Primary Health Centers in Osogbo for exposure to clinical Public Health expertise and experiences within the clinical settings. This is an important strategy that has been identified to be an Integrated, functional and mutually supportive referral systems towards achieving Health For All by Alma Ata. In future, as the Department grows, more of Public Health activities shall be brought on board in and outside the University using the various strategies of Health Promotion recommended by the World Health Organization in Ottawa Chatter.

University Contact Info

for further enquiries visit

Fountain University , Osogbo
P.M.B 4491, OSUN STATE NIGERIA.

admission@fuo.edu.ng

 

 

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As an academic discipline, public health has evolved as a practice from time immemorial as self-preservation, a fundamental instinct that is as timeless as the human evolution itself

The Department aim to produce highly motivated graduates of high academic standard with adequate Public Health exposure who can function adequately in the field of Public Health with a broad based academic professional training and competence that reflect the emphasis on the current national preventive health care system and services

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