Personal and Community Health for Health Professionals

This course introduces the core principles and practices of personal and community health, preparing health professionals to promote wellness and prevent disease at both individual and population levels.

Learners will explore fundamental concepts and determinants of health, the multiple dimensions of well-being—physical, mental, social, and environmental—and the key links between personal habits and community health outcomes.

A major focus is on personal hygiene, including care of the skin and its appendages, internal body cleanliness, appropriate clothing and footwear, and considerations for special groups. The course also examines the concepts of communicable diseases, their causation, transmission cycles, and the levels of disease prevention.

Course Outcomes

By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

• Explain key concepts and determinants of personal and community health and how they influence well-being.

• Describe the dimensions of health and their interrelationships in maintaining holistic wellness.

• Demonstrate principles of personal hygiene, including care of the skin, internal cleanliness, appropriate clothing and footwear, and hygiene needs of special groups.

• Analyze the causation and transmission of communicable diseases and apply the levels of disease prevention in practice.

• Apply principles of environmental hygiene/sanitation, covering housing, ventilation, lighting, safe water supply, food hygiene, and waste management.

• Design and deliver community-based health education and promotion activities that support sustainable healthy practices.