Protecting Communities: Training Course in Public Health Foundations and First Aid (Online / Remote)
1Summary
What keeps a community healthy is rarely just the absence of disease in any one person — it's the environmental, social, climatic, chemical and biological factors surrounding entire populations, and how well a system studies and controls them. Modern public health has grown well beyond treating illness: it now covers physical, mental and social wellbeing together, alongside the practical skills needed to prevent disease, manage primary and secondary preventive measures, and stop complications before they start. First aid sits right alongside it, since the two fields constantly overlap in how they protect people.
The Arab British Fellowship Training Academy offers this course in public health foundations and first aid to raise public health awareness and service quality, for anyone working in or around this field.
2Objectives and target group
Who Should Attend?
- Public health staff such as doctors and community pharmacists.
- Students and graduates of health and medical colleges and institutes.
- New nurses.
What Participants Will Gain
- How to measure health levels within communities and raise environmental health service standards.
- Modern public health concepts, its levels, and how it connects to health education and disease prevention.
- How public health and first aid overlap and shape each other's work.
- The multiple causes behind disease and how to act on them, plus practical ways to promote healthy behaviors and environmental justice.
3Course Content
Module 1: What Shapes a Community's Health
- The environmental, social and other factors affecting public health.
- Reading public health levels across different communities.
Module 2: Physical and Mental Health as One System
- Physical health fundamentals and how they connect to mental health.
Module 3: Public Health Foundations
- The concept and core principles of public health.
Module 4: First Aid Essentials
- The principles, basic rules and fundamentals of first aid.