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This course is focussed
on how to improve the health of populations and communities
and particular groups within them through the prevention
of disease, the promotion of health and the provision
and evaluation of appropriate treatment and care:
There are six core modules. Each core
module takes two weeks, accumulating 10 credits each.
Core modules are compulsory for all MPH students, however
exemptions may be given where students can demonstrate
credits gained from another institution or evidence of
having completed the content of the module and which has
been formally assessed by another university.
The core modules are:
- Epidemiology
Aim: To provide an introduction to the basic concepts
and methods of epidemiology
- Biostatistics
Aim: To provide an introduction to the basic statistical
methods used in public health research
- Environmental Health and Disease Prevention
Aim: To provide an introduction to the concepts and
skills needed to analyse the interaction between human
health and the environment and to provide a critical
appreciation of the theories, principles and practices
of health promotion and disease prevention
- Health Management
Aim: To provide an introduction to economics, management,
policy and planning as applied to health care.
- Health Systems Research
Aim: To provide an overview of health systems and approaches
and practice to research within health systems.
- Social Sciences
Aim: To provide an overview of social sciences and their
application to the empirical study of health and health
care.
Elective modules include: Adolescent
health, Advanced epidemiology and statistics, Bioethics,
Child health, Communicable disease control, Demography,
Effective group leadership, Epidemiology and statistics
- supplementary, Family planning, Financial management,
Health information, HIV/AIDS, Information retrieval, Leadership
skills, Malaria, Maternal health, Nutrition, Primary health
care, Programme planning, Research synthesis, Research
proposal development, Sexually transmitted diseases, TB. |
