The ten key areas for public health practice

The Faculty has agreed the ten key areas for public health practice, which form the basis of all Faculty development of standards.

  • Surveillance and assessment of the population's health and well-being
  • Promoting and protecting the population's health and well-being
  • Developing quality and risk management within an evaluative culture
  • Collaborative working for health
  • Developing health programmes and services, and reducing inequalities
  • Policy and strategy development and implementation
  • Working with and for communities
  • Strategic leadership for health
  • Research and development
  • Ethically managing self, people and resources