Health Promotion

The Graduate Certificate in Health Promotion aims to provide you with the knowledge and skills to incorporate the principles of public health into specific fields of practice in order to reduce inequalities in health care access and health outcomes.

In Australia, these principles include:

• maximising consumer and community participation to enable individuals and communities to be better informed and to be involved in health care decisions
• encouraging partnerships between health and non-health sectors to ensure full use of resources
• fostering self-management and self-reliance to increase knowledge, skills and confidence in individuals, groups and communities
• promoting health and disease prevention to attain and sustain good health and well-being.

Public health has become an increasingly significant focus of government plans worldwide, initiating developments at local and national levels within multiple healthcare settings. Graduates are expected to progress into employment in public health policy, management and practice.

Potential occupations include:

• public health officer
• nutrition advisor
• public health senior consultant
• health promotion planning and evaluation officer
• health information officer
• health and safety manager.