Importance of public health

Public health is a discipline of medical science. It is the science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities. Basically, community medicine, hospital management, reproductive health care, child health care etc. are related to public health. It works as a tool to raise awareness among communities about fighting diseases and adopting a healthy lifestyle. Public health professionals' major role is to create awareness among the common public. They make people understand the severity of the diseases and the best practices to curb the spread of the diseases or protect themselves from the same. They do this by organising counselling, workshop, seminar, etc.
However, it is true that public health workers are insufficient in Bangladesh as public health is not properly defined and discussed in our health sector. The number of public health institutes is also a handful in our country. We should increase the opportunity of work for public health workers in our country so that we can stay away from health-related rumours and misconceptions and have accurate knowledge about diseases and well-being.

Shah Muntacher Hossain Mihan,
Student of Department of Social Work,
Noakhali Science and Technology University, Noakhali,
muntachirmihan1998@gmail.com