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[quote=Anonymous]That is the primary professional degree in public health. While psychology considers individuals, public health takes them and their social and physical environments into account (=population level health). Even though many people do not realize this, we are all heavily influenced by our environments.

Public health has five core disciplines: environmental health, health services and policy (administrative), biostatistics, epidemiology and the more psychological component (variously called Health and Social Behavior, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Health and Society, etc).

If your daughter specializes in the latter, she will learn what influences our health-related behaviors (such as what we eat, whether we exercise, smoke, wear a bike helmet, etc). She will learn how to design and evaluate programs designed to change health-related behaviors. She could work for the government (such as the CDC), a college, a corporation (less common), a non-profit (focused on one disease, for example, such as the American Heart Association).

It is an interesting, important field. You should be proud that she wants to help people. [/quote]

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