BSc Public Health and Health Promotion with Foundation Year

The foundation year offers an alternative route to a career in public health, allowing you to develop the skills you need to become a public health professional.

Our Public Health and Health Promotion with Foundation Year course will equip you with the knowledge and skills necessary to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

The World Health Organization and governments around the world are supporting the expansion of health promotion and public health. This is a growing and important area to be in.

You will study the mental, emotional, social, physical, spiritual, political and environmental influences on health and how currently the government aims to address these.

A typical offer would be 32 UCAS Tariff points.

Candidates without formal qualifications will be considered following an interview and should demonstrate an interest in health studies.

For more information on the IELTS (International English language Testing System) requirements for this course

The degree provides suitable entry qualifications which will contribute to becoming a registered health promotion or public health practitioner. It also opens up routes into teaching, through PGCE, and prepares you for further postgraduate study at all levels through to PhD. The course is normally accepted for graduate entry into health professional and social work programmes of study.

Typical areas of employment that you can enter after completing this degree are:

• Commissioning public health services
• Public health intelligence and surveillance
• Health trainer
• Project management: bid writing, community engagement and empowerment
• Health policy and electoral reform
• Health research
• Communicating health information through social marketing and health-related media
• Health services improvement and administration
• Criminal justice system work in prisons and probation
• Housing support, welfare and citizen’s advice
• International development and global health: education programmes, tackling poverty, human rights
• Charity work: fundraising, improving life-chances for vulnerable people and those with disabilities Non-Governmental Organizations
• Undertake further study to become a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
• Improving healthy lifestyles (e.g. physical activity, sexual health, smoking cessation, drugs and alcohol, weight management)
• Town planning, urban development and regeneration, healthy places
• Health protection, health improvement, environmental health, health and safety officer, risk management, emergency planning
• Occupational health – workplace health and wellbeing, human resources
• Coaching, mentoring, counselling, supporting people with mental health issues, youth support work Leisure industry
• Food sustainability, pollution reduction, climate change
• Teaching and the wider education sector
• Civil service