In addition to particularly relevant public health topics and major social health risks, the course teaches the thinking and approach of the multidiscipline of public health. Its focus is not only on disease but also on health and more on prevention instead of cure as well as on social groups and their living conditions instead of individuals and individual risk factors.

Insight and overview over the broad, interdisciplinary and applied research field of work and health. Focus mainly on psychosocial factors (strains, stressors, resources) of paid work and their effects on psychological and physical health and on satisfaction and motivation of employees.

Presentation of and work with different topics and particularly relevent focal points of socio-scientific health research as well as communication of contents and becoming more familiar with ways of thinking and working in socio-scientific health research.