MSc Public Health (DL)
Master
Distance
Description
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Type
Master
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Methodology
Distance Learning
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Duration
2 Years
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Start date
October
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Online campus
Yes
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Delivery of study materials
Yes
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Support service
Yes
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Virtual classes
Yes
These courses provide students with the knowledge and skills to contribute to the improved health of populations and particular groups within them through the promotion of health and prevention of diseases; the development and evaluation of care practices; and the investigation and control of environmental threats to health. Students are instructed in the development, use and critical evaluation of conceptual models, evidence, methods of analysis, and practical interventions.
These programmes provide students with the knowledge and skills to address diverse public health issues in low, middle and high income settings. The varied curriculum allows students to opt for a broad range of knowledge or to concentrate on specialised areas. The programme offers four alternative streams; the general Public Health stream and three specialist streams: Environment and Health; Health Promotion and Health Services Management.
Students on this programme come from diverse backgrounds. Many are health professionals working at a service or policy level, while others wish to obtain public health skills that they can apply to their work in development, community services, government, research or teaching. Find out more about our graduate careers and destinations.
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About this course
All applicants are required to have:
a minimum of one year's relevant work experience; and
a first or second class honours degree or the equivalent, in a subject appropriate to the course, from a university or other institution acceptable to the University of London.
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Subjects
- Infection
- Public Health
- Evaluation
- Public
- Project
- General
- Students
- Registered
- Analysis
- Management
- Decision
- Economic
Course programme
Students registered for the General stream must select eight modules from the list below (of which at least four must be PHM2 modules) OR complete five from the list (of which at least one must be a PHM2 module) and a final year project.
Students registered for a specialised stream (Health Promotion, Environment and Health, or Health Services Management) must select seven modules from the list below in addition to the stream-specific compulsory PHM2 module (at least three of these seven must be PHM2 modules) OR complete four from the list (of which at least one must be a PHM2 module), the stream-specific compulsory PHM2 module, and a final year project.
- GHM201 Health Systems
- PHM201 Analytical Models for Decision Making
- PHM203 Economic Analysis for Management & Policy
- PHM204 Economic Evaluation
- PHM205 Environmental Epidemiology
- PHM206 Environmental Health Policy
- PHM207 Health Care Evaluation
- PHM209 Globalisation & Health
- PHM210 Managing Health Services
- PHM211 Medical Anthropology in Public Health
- PHM212 Organisational Management
- PHM213 Principles and Practice of Health Promotion
- PHM214 Conflict and Health
- PHM215 History and Health
- PHM216 Sexual Health
- PHM218 Applied Communicable Disease Control
- PHM219 Evaluation of Public Health Interventions
- PHM305 Project Report
- EPM202 Statistical Methods in Epidemiology
- IDM201 Bacterial Infections
- IDM202 Nutrition and Infection
- IDM203 Parasitology
- IDM205 Healthcare-associated Infection
- IDM213 Immunology of Infection and Vaccines
- IDM215 Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
- IDM301 Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases in Developing Countries
- IDM501 HIV
- IDM502 Tuberculosis
- IDM503 Malaria
All MSc students have the option to apply to undertake a project report specific to their chosen stream, which is equivalent to three module credits.
MSc Public Health (DL)