Current policy initiatives are driving towards a new approach to mental health services. Contemporary mental health services need an increasingly knowledgeable and flexible workforce to work across disciplinary boundaries and to incorporate users and carers into their practice areas. This course is designed to achieve this by enabling people to explore theoretical, philosophical and practice issues in relation to these rapidly changing mental health services.

Modules:
Critical mental health, health and social care research: methods and methodology, integrated mental health.

Tel: +44 (0)117 328 1158
Fax +44 (0)117 328 1185
Email HSC.CPD@uwe.ac.uk
Internet: http://courses.uwe.ac.uk/b99k42/2009

Public Health has been defined and understood in a number of ways from a range of perspectives. More recent definitions emphasise a wide interdisciplinary context. An accepted definition of public health is 'the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, promoting, protecting and improving health and well-being through organised efforts of society.' These efforts will address policy issues at the level of the population's health and will tackle the roots of health and disease, as well as considering the provision of effective health care services. Public health works through collaborative working that cuts across disciplinary, professional and organisation boundaries, and exploits this diversity in collaboration, to bring evidence and research-based policies to all areas which impact on health and wellbeing of populations.

Core modules:

• Understanding Public Health
• Public Policy
• Evidence-Based Public Health
• Epidemiology and Research Methodology
• Research Project Skills
• Dissertation
• Health Promotion Theory and Practice
• Communicable Disease Control

Optional modules:

• Social Marketing
• Applied Epidemiology
• Health Economics
• Healthy and Sustainable Communities
• Understanding Statistics
• Regeneration, Renewal and Practice

Home and EU Students: 3,042 pound sterling per 60 credits (part-time)
International Students: 730 pound sterling per 10 credits (part-time)
Students will be liable for the payment of tuition fees, which are due in full at registration unless an employer is sponsoring you.
If you are currently receiving means tested benefits you may be entitled to reduced fees. For further information contact the Student Services team on +44 (0) 117 32 82822 or e-mail: hsc.studentadvisers@uwe.ac.uk.

Postgraduate Administrator,
Faculty of Health and Social Care,
Health Training and Research Centre,
University of the West of England,
Frenchay Campus,
Bristol BS16 1QY,
Tel: +44 (0)117 32 81158
Fax +44 (0)117 32 81185
Email HSC.CPD@uwe.ac.uk
Internet: http://courses.uwe.ac.uk/bl9412/2009

Designed to meet the postgraduate development needs of current and potential managers in health and public service organisations, this programme aims to promote multi-agency working between health, social care, justice and central and local government organisations in the public, private and voluntary sectors. The course is run jointly by the Faculty of Health and Social Care and Bristol Business School, and draws on the expertise of a wide range of academics and practitioners.

Programme aims

• To develop effective managers and leaders across the public, private and voluntary sectors
• To enable students to use their organisational experiences to develop their own roles, organisational effectiveness and interagency and partnership working
• To provide a stimulating, supportive and sensitive learning environment
• To facilitate students' development as self-directed and reflective learners

What will the programme cover?

• The changing policy and organisational context of the public services
• The nature of relations between different agencies
• The challenges of partnership and multiagency working
• Contemporary research issues and methods
• Leadership and the management of change
• The tensions between management and contemporary professional practice
• Promotion of organisational learning and the involvement of service users

• A good honours degree, or equivalent professional qualification
• Two years in a managerial role, or equivalent

If you do not have one or other of these requirements you may still be considered for the programme. Please contact us for further details.

Yusuf Ahmad and Margaret Page

Home and EU Students: 3,600 pound sterling (full-time)
International Students: 8,250 pound sterling (full-time)
Home and EU Students: 3,042 pound sterling per 60 credits (part-time)
International Students: 730 pound sterling per 10 credits (part-time)
Students will be liable for the payment of tuition fees, which are due in full at registration unless an employer is sponsoring you.
If you are currently receiving means tested benefits you may be entitled to reduced fees. For further information contact the Student Services team on +44 (0) 117 32 82822 or e-mail: hsc.studentadvisers@uwe.ac.uk.