Social And Behavioral Aspects Of Public Health

The term Public Health meant the awareness and understanding of the public on a wider platform along with the prevalence and incidence rate of the varied diseases, total population and a geographical viewpoint of the varied ratio and percentages worldwide. Registering for a Masters in Public Health as a Psychologist was solely based on the concept of understanding individual and their behavior in society on a wider domain.Social And Behavioral Aspects Of Public Health

The introductory course taught me that there is much more to the field of Public Health. It is not merely just the above. Public Health is a proactive and a preventive approach focusing on the entire population than on just one individual suffering from a disease. Public health is productive when the entire population is healthy and when it fails or falters the entire population suffers along with it. The social and behavioral aspect of Public health takes into consideration the social concepts and processes that influence the health status that is the culture, race/ethnicity, gender, poverty/disparities, factors related to behavior change, community, organizational climate, family and public health interventions and to develop empathy towards the needs, attitude and behavior of the society/community as well as to further study the vast aspects of the social and behavioral determinants of health.Social And Behavioral Aspects Of Public Health