Societal Health BSc (Hons)
Bachelor's degree
In Bangor
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Bangor (Wales)
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Duration
3 Years
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Start date
September
The BSc Societal Health degree is designed to provide students with the opportunity to study how a range of health conditions are experienced, at population and individual levels. The focus is on understanding why and how health services work in the way that they do, by studying models of care and delivery and whether they meet the needs of the population. Students will develop an understanding of the nature of discrimination and inequality in society, with regards to health and wellbeing, and then study the role of social, political, economic, legal and cultural factors in creating and maintaining health inequalities.
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About this course
The course aims to enable understudies to: Show a critical understanding of the range of research methods.
Show a critical appreciation of the practical issues involved in the design, planning, conduct, and end product(s) of research methods.
Demonstrate an understanding of the issues around the management, analysis and presentation of data
Develop confidence and style in presenting material via the oral medium
Societal Health graduates will enter professions such as health service management, care provision, public information, research and evaluation of the health and social care services.
BTEC HND with 3 merits and 2 distinctions
GNVQ (Advanced) overall Merit award
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Subjects
- IT
- School
- Sociology of Health
- Methods of Social Research
- Global Health & Social Care Issues
- Mental Health & Society
- Dissertation
- Comparative Health & Welfare
- Survey Design and Analysis
- The Addicted Body
Course programme
Societal Health BSc (Hons)