PUBLIC HEALTH

By /

BSC PUBLIC HEALTH

PUBLIC HEALTH SITUATION IN GHANA 

1.Poor environmental sanitation & hygiene practices

2.Poor occupational health, safety & disaster management practices

3.High incidence and prevalence of communicable & non-communicable diseases 

4.Sale and consumption of unsafe food

5.Poor nutrition related diseases

6.Unhealthy behavioural life-styles

7.Poor psycho-social well-being & increasing mental illness

INTERVENTION BY CU BSC PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAMME

1.To provide broad-based education in public health principles & practices

2.To generate evidence-based research outcomes that would influence policy decisions

3.To create opportunity for students to concentrate on public health areas with limited expertise in Ghana

4.To produce practitioners equipped to make visible positive impact on the health of populations in Ghana and beyond

Entry Requirements

General entry requirements

  1. SSSCE Applicants: Credit passes of grade ‘D’ or better in three (3) core subjects – Integrated Science / Social Studies, Core Mathematics, and English Language in addition to three elective subjects applicable to the elective area of choice.
  2. WASSCE Applicants: Credit passes of grade ‘C6’ or better in three (3) core subjects – Integrated Science / Social Studies, Core Mathematics, and English Language in addition to three elective subjects applicable to the elective area of choice.
  3. GCE Applicants: Applicants must have credit passes in at least (5) five General Certificate of Education (GCE) Ordinary level subjects including English Language, Mathematics and one Science subject and at least two passes at GCE A-Level in Mathematics and any other subject. A pass in General Paper is also required. Applicants with GCE O/A levels can choose any elective area.

Specific entry requirements

  1. Science Students who have Credit passes or better in all Core Subjects listed in ‘i’ OR ‘ii’ above in addition to any three of the following: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Elective Mathematics enter at L100 and are qualified to select any of the elective options from Level 300:
  2. Epidemiology and Disease Control
  3. Environmental and Occupational Health
  4. Health Informatics
  1. Non-Science Students who have Credit passes or better in all Core Subjects listed in ‘i’ OR ‘ii’ above in addition to any three of the following: Food and Nutrition, General Knowledge in Arts, Economics, Animal Husbandry, Geography, Literature, General Agriculture, Elective Information Communication Technology (ICT), Management in Living, Horticulture, Government, Literature in English, Economics, History, French, Geography, Crop and Soil Science, General Knowledge in Art, Food and Nutrition enter at L100 and can choose any of the elective options from Level 300:
  2. Environmental and Occupational Health
  3. Health Informatics
  4. Public Health Nutrition
  5. Health Promotion
  1. Holders of the Awards for Training and Higher Education (ATHE) – UK Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care from Central University enter at L100 and may choose the Health Promotion or Health Informatics options.

NB: Foreign Certificates must receive authentication and equivalences from the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC). Foreign students must have their high school certificates and diplomas translated into English if they are not written in English.

  1. Applicants for advance placement: Holders of two (2) years passes in post SHS Certificate courses in Public Health, Disease Control, Community Health Nursing or Midwifery, Health Assistants Clinical, Environmental Health Assistants, Mental Health, Nutrition, and Health Records Keeping, from the Schools of Hygiene, or Colleges of Health and Well-Being, e.g., Kintampo, or any similarly recognized institution, with at least one (1) year post-completion experience
  2. May be admitted to L200 and may choose any of the elective options.  
  1. Holders of passes from two – three (2-3) years post SHS Diplomas in Public Health, Environmental Health, Disease Control, or any other related field of study, with GPA of 2.5 or better, from the Schools of Hygiene, or Colleges of Health and Well-Being, e.g., Kintampo, or any similarly recognized institution, with at least one (1) year post-completion experience
  2. May be admitted to L300 and may choose any of the elective options.
  1.  Holders of passes from First Degrees with CGPA of 1.0 or better in the Biological, Allied Health, or Biomedical Sciences, Nursing, Health Education, or related fields deemed equivalent by the Admissions Committee, from recognized Universities,
  2. May be admitted to L300 and may choose any of the elective options.

All applicants to the School of Medical Sciences will be interviewed.

Scroll to Top