Overview
Why study at UWL?
- Our Health Studies courses were ranked #1 in London for overall student satisfaction in this year's NSS.
- In the top 30% of universities nationwide - The Guardian University Guide 2024
- University of the Year for Social Inclusion - Daily Mail University Guide 2024
- Best university for Student Experience and Teaching Quality in the UK - The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024
- Number 1 London university (non-specialist) - National Student Survey 2023**
Are you passionate about getting health messages out to the wider society? Do you want to see large populations lead healthier, fuller lives?
With this course, you'll learn how to protect, promote, and improve the health and well-being of individuals, families, and communities in the UK and abroad.
The knowledge, skills, and experience you gain on this course will enable you to pursue a broad, non-clinical, public health career in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.
This course is also being offered at our partner institute in Oxford, Ruskin College. See BSc (Hons) Public Health at Ruskin.
Course detail & modules
Learn about the social, cultural, economic and political factors that affect health as well as identify health patterns and trends in the health and wellness of individuals, neighbourhoods and populations.
You will be able to empower individuals, families and societies to make healthy lifestyle changes through effective verbal, written, audio-visual, social media presentation, and communication methods.
The University provides an excellent volunteering service with opportunities in public health-related charities and not-for-profit organisations.
You can also develop wider skills such as taking part in organising and taking part in real-world health promotion such as a World AIDS day flash mob and a student-led health conference seminar.
This course includes Making Every Contact Count (MECC) training (usually delivered in Year 2). MECC is about taking every opportunity to ask, assist and advise people about their lifestyles, including:
- smoking
- alcohol
- physical activity
- healthy eating
- mental wellbeing
It will enable you to use evidence-based methods to empower and enable people to make the changes they choose. Following completion of the training, you will receive a certificate.
In addition, you will enhance your leadership skills and ability to work as part of a team.
Your new skills will help you to:
- work effectively with diverse groups involved in the promotion of public health
- deliver and evaluate innovative health promotion campaigns
- influence the development of policy for healthy communities
After completing the course you will be able to work within multi-agency teams delivering health promotion projects and programmes and will possess the interpersonal and community engagement skills to work in diverse communities.
Please note that if you are applying for direct entry to the second or third year of this course then you will study a different set of modules from those shown here. Please contact the course leader, Minakshi Bhardwaj, for details.
Entry requirements
- Requirements:UK
- Requirements:International
You need to meet our English language requirement - a minimum of IELTS 5.5 for each of the 4 individual components (Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening). Visit our English language requirements page for information on other English language tests we accept.
You also need academic qualifications at the same level as UK applicants. In some countries where teaching is in English, we may accept local qualifications. Check for local equivalents.
We offer pre-sessional English language courses if you do not meet these requirements.
Find out more about our English Language courses.
Mature applicants (aged 21+): If you do not hold the qualifications listed but have relevant work experience, you are welcome to apply. Your application will be considered on an individual basis where the applicants will map the previous knowledge, learning and experience relevant to the course and required skills.
Level 5 (year 2) entry To directly enter the second year of this course you will need to show appropriate knowledge and experience. For example, you are an ideal candidate if you have 120 undergraduate credits at Level 4 or a CertHE in a related subject area.
Level 6 (year 3) entry To directly enter the third year of this course you need to show appropriate knowledge and experience. For example, you are an ideal candidate if you have 240 undergraduate credits (at Levels 4 and 5), a DipHE, Foundation Degree or HND in a related subject area.
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