Why is Family Health important?

Family health is grounded on a life course approach to study the physical and social conditions during gestation, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood and midlife that affect health outcomes in later life.

It also emphasizes the social and behavioral aspects of public health.

Key principles of family health include:

1. Today’s healthy child is tomorrow’s healthy parent and grandparent.
2. Fostering the health of a mother or father will also produce healthy children now and in the future.
3. Healthy families are key to stimulating economic growth and fostering development with increasing equity.
4. Poor, unhealthy families are unlikely to generate the increases in productivity and savings necessary for sustained economic growth.

MISSION

• We aim to produce public health professionals who can fulfil the needs of the population of all ages, from womb to tomb, for good health and well-being.
• We also try our best to provide the highest quality of public health training for both undergraduates and postgraduates pursuing courses involving Family Health.
• For undergraduate students, we teach them to become doctors who can improve the health of people and their communities.
• For postgraduate students, we train them to become public health professionals who will establish and maintain public health programmes throughout their life course.
• Apart from that, we promote healthy lifestyles and collaborate with other organisations, including public, private and non-governmental organisations in teaching, learning and research.