Bachelor of Health Sciences - Health Promotion

Curtin University

Health promotion is one of the three core strategies of public health, alongside disease prevention and health protection.

Rather than treating disease after it occurs, health promotion works upstream, addressing the social, economic, environmental and cultural conditions that affect people's health.

This major is ideal if you're aiming to work directly with communities and organisations that build health equity, prevent illness and remove the drivers of poor health.

You'll learn to design and deliver evidence-informed programs, advocate for healthier policies, engage communities as partners in change – and evaluate what works.

This major brings together current thinking in health equity and social justice, culturally safe and First Nations-led approaches, mental health promotion, chronic disease prevention, planetary health, and digital and media-based communication.