The Department of Public Health and Nutrition of the Faculty of Food Sciences, Nutrition, and Quality Management of the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine invites gifted and talented young people, graduates of general education institutions and colleges to study for a degree in Public Health (specialization in Nutrition).
The need to create this specialty was prompted by the reform of the healthcare sector in Ukraine, which is based on shifting the focus from treatment to prevention through the development of a new public health system based on a nationwide principle, as provided for in Chapter 22 of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU.
What does the public health system entail? The updated system focuses on measures that will help Ukrainians improve their quality of life and life expectancy. First and foremost, these are: – food labeling; – developing strategies for immunization, health promotion, and childcare; – ensuring high-quality and affordable medical services.
It will contribute to:
• disease prevention, strengthening public health, and increasing life expectancy;
• the effective use of state budget funds to ensure epidemiological surveillance, monitoring, preparedness, and response to threats and emergencies;
• the effective exercise of powers by central executive bodies and other entities;
• the development of a comprehensive approach to solving public health problems;
• the preservation of the function of ensuring the biological safety and biological protection of the state through the creation of a national network of institutions for disease control and prevention, etc.
The specialty “Public Health” is in high demand in European countries and is rapidly developing in Ukraine. The wide range of further activities of graduates of this specialty is due to the acquisition of competencies in disciplines that are at the intersection of natural sciences and humanities: medicine, ecology, biology, statistics, sociology, law, economics, and political science.
Positions that graduates can hold:
- scientists and researchers;
- specialists-organizers of healthcare institutions (dietitians, statisticians, epidemiologists, valeologists, bacteriologists, physiotherapists, etc.);
- specialists-organizers of sanitary and epidemiological profile;
- healthcare organizers (deputy chief physicians, experts in the quality of medical care);
- public health specialists in state and municipal institutions (regional, district, and city health departments, social protection, ecology, occupational safety departments, etc.);
- experts in insurance companies.
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