To provide professionals that wish to carry out their work in Public Health and Healthcare Management with the current knowledge, skills and practices that this field requires in a multidisciplinary context.

• To train students to describe, analyse and explain health problems.
• To facilitate the knowledge of strategies of health promotion and disease promotion.
• To master the technical aspects of health protection (including food security, occupational health and environmental health)
• Articulate the basic knowledge in Hospital Preventive Medicine and complementary aspects of this specialisation field. 
• To know and have the elements for planning and managing healthcare services. 
• Develop, explain and properly apply research in the field of health.