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Public Health

General Description

The Department of Public Health is a medical discipline based on preventive medicine, working to protect and improve the health of individuals and communities, and to prevent disease. Prioritizing community-based interventions over individual health services, this unit encourages the adoption of healthy lifestyles and guides public health policies.

The Department of Public Health at our hospital approaches public health from a multidimensional perspective, taking into account environmental, social and economic factors, and also monitors public health data through field studies and research.


Services Provided

  • Immunization services (vaccine administration and follow-up)

  • Monitoring and control of infectious diseases

  • Studies on environmental health and occupational health

  • Nutrition, obesity and physical activity counseling

  • Maternal and child health services

  • School health, elderly health and adolescent health programs

  • Pandemic and epidemic management (epidemiological analysis and monitoring)

  • Health education and public information activities

The unit produces solutions to public health problems and expands preventive health services in cooperation with local and national health authorities.


Education and Academic Activities

The Department of Public Health aims to provide medical students with a holistic perspective on public health:

  • Epidemiology training

  • Preventive health services internship

  • Field research and survey applications

  • Seminars and discussions on public health policies

  • Public health-based thesis consultancy
    offers.


Vision and Goals

As the Department of Public Health;

  • Expanding preventive health services targeting the whole society,

  • Increasing health literacy,

  • Guiding evidence-based public health policies,

  • Contributing to the health system through scientific research
    We work with an understanding.

Our goal is to prevent diseases before treating them and to create a healthy living environment for everyone.

AYsEGuL ERDOgAN1512111114521031

Prof. Dr. Ayşegül ERDOĞAN

Public Health
aerdogan@ksu.edu.tr