Unlike medical care, which focuses on specific injuries or illnesses, public health focuses on promoting health and preventing disease in entire populations. It aims to guarantee every person access to quality healthcare, to educate and encourage healthy behavior and to create healthy environments. You just may not be sure of what to do with your newfound knowledge. Plenty of opportunities are out there.
Public health is the hottest field in healthcare.
This kind of growth is not happening elsewhere in the health industry. And according to the University of Michigan School of Public Health, on any given day in the United States, up to 5,000 public-health job vacancies exist. Today's public-health professional has a much broader array of career choices than ever before, according to Gemmell. In the past our graduates ended up working for public agencies. Now they work in research, community service, health policy and education.