This course provides a holistic understanding of health and its determinants. You will gain insight into public health perspectives for action to improve health in various contexts, including local settings, schools, workplaces, and neighbourhood communities. In addition, this course will equip you with an understanding of the Australian healthcare system, its funding, the challenges and major factors impacting it, and law and ethics in health. Finally, building on your holistic and preventive approach to health, this course introduces public health principles and practices, including the historical context of old versus new public health, health public policy, health protection, surveillance and monitoring of communicable and non-communicable diseases, managing domains for public health action, and partnerships with key stakeholders in global and local contexts.