Description
The bachelor degree program in public health is designed for individuals seeking academic professional training in public health. The program equips students with the specific knowledge and skills of public health and its promotion necessary for a career in settings ranging from government health institutions, national and international non-governmental organizations, voluntary and for-profit agencies to community-based agencies. The program familiarizes students with fundamental knowledge and skills of public health and application in managing public health programs. The course aims to produce professionals with degree of bachelor of public health (MPH) in order to achieve better management of quality public health services to maintain a healthy life to contribute in the socio-economic development of the country.
Objectives
General Objective
The overall objective of BPH program is to prepare competent and responsible public health graduates needed for the country to respond to the health needs of people.
Specific Objectives
The specific objectives of the program is to enable the graduates with Bachelor in Public Health degree to-
• Explain relevance of basic health sciences in public health
• Appreciate behavioral, socio-cultural, economic and other dimension of health and diseases
• Analyze health systems from public health perspective – effectiveness, efficiency, equity and justice
• Manage – plan, implement, monitor and evaluate – health systems, programs and services
• Train and manage human resources for health
• Conduct health research for evidence based decision making process in public health
• Demonstrate leadership to organize and mobilize community to address health problems
Teaching learning approaches
• Class room based didactic lecture
• Self-directed learning
– Seminar
– Assignments presentations
– Group work
– Library study
• Demonstration
– Public health lab
– Basic health science
• Observation visit
– Health Institutions
– Public health related institutions/organizations
• Community and health institutional based education
– Community Health Diagnosis – 30 days residential field
– District Health system management – 60 days residential field
– Practicum in district – Organizational experience in the management of health programs
• Mandatory research paper in the Fourth Year
Admission Process
Candidates should pass the entrance examination of Commision of Medical Education.
Contact Address
Central Department of Public Health
Institute of Medicine
Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal
Email: cdph@iom.edu.np
Telephone: 977-1-4435033