Public Health PGDip
Postgraduate
In Brighton
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
Brighton
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Duration
1 Year
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Start date
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The MSc in Public Health course has been designed within a multi-professional, modular framework that draws on a wide range of disciplines.
The course combines a set of four compulsory core modules (Principles and Practice of Public Health, Epidemiology, Essential Statistics in Health and Medical Research, and Research Methods and Critical Appraisal) with a range of optional modules (eg Health Protection, Nutrition in Public Health, International Health etc) which allows students to focus on areas relevant to their work and professional interests. The research dissertation module provides an excellent opportunity to integrate study-based learning with a work-based research project improving students' competencies and skills to enhance their long-term career in public health.
The course delivers a solid grounding in public health theory and practice to provide a mechanism for analysing and instituting change in practice and to support public health leadership and registration. This is particularly pertinent in a challenging time of change and the course addresses recent moves in responsibility for the delivery of public health programmes. Teaching sessions are delivered by academicians and practitioners who are active in the field. The inter-professional background of the course participants fosters an environment in which occupational experiences are shared and a wider understanding of multidisciplinary public health issues is gained.
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About this course
Course participants are empowered to develop public health practice which has a positive impact on their communities.
Teaching sessions are delivered by academicians and practitioners who are active in the field. Course participants are empowered to develop public health practice which has a positive impact on their community. The course prepares students to pursue careers related to public health in a range of national and international public and non-governmental organisations.
The course is open to all applicants who are intending to practice in public health or related fields, and professionals who are in a position to deliver improvements in population health. Typical professions include primary care and public health practitioners, specialist community public health nurses, health promotion specialists, community development workers, environmental health officers and managers in the NHS and local authorities.
Applicants should have achieved a first or upper second-class undergraduate honours degree or equivalent in any Public Health-related subject
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Subjects
- Public Health
- Project
- Methodology
- Research
- Analysis
- Dissertation
- Development
- Management
- Literature
- Professional
Course programme
- Overall principles of public health practice
- Examples of public health issues and how they are addressed
- Organisational foundations of historical and current public health practice
- Public health, health policy, health protection and the environment
- Measuring health gain
- Quality and efficacy in public health practice
- Appropriate approaches and organisational bases for targeting populations, communities and individuals to reduce health inequalities
- Public health contribution to commissioning health care services
- Inequalities in health and their measurement; measures of “deprivation” and their use in the development of health policy
- Evidence-based public health
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Public Health PGDip