The main purpose of public healthcare is to provide communities with access to healthcare at hospitals and clinics. Health promotion, on the other hand, is the science and art of enabling people to increase self-control and improve their overall wellbeing. Factors such as increasing life expectancy to childhood obesity, global pandemics, and other environmental factors have a major impact on public health. Health promotion assists in mitigating negative impacts on public health by enabling people to increase self-control and improve their overall wellbeing.   

The MANCOSA skillME Public Healthcare: Health Promotion short learning programme (SLP) has been developed by industry experts to provide healthcare professionals involved in the public healthcare domain with a robust understanding of strategy, management, and implementation of delivering public health services.