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Public Health (Distance Learning) – (M.Sc.)
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Faculty of Public Health and Policy| Application Deadline: | 30 June | ||
| Location: | London / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 24 months | Start Date: | October |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
This degree covers the entire breadth of public health and provides a wide choice of study options. The four streams on offer include a general Public Health stream and three specialist streams:
* Environment and Health
* Health Promotion
* Health Services Management
The course provides you with the knowledge and skills necessary to improve the health of populations, communities and particular groups within them, through:
* the promotion of health and prevention of diseases
* the provision and evaluation of treatment and care
* the investigation and control of environmental threats to health.
Objectives
By the end of this course students should be able to demonstrate ability to apply knowledge of the core disciplines of public health, consisting of statistics; epidemiology; health economics; and social research, to real world health problems.
Contents
Core
In Part I all students complete four Compulsory modules: (i) Basic Statistics for Public Health & Policy; (ii) Basic Epidemiology; (iii) Introduction to Health Economics; and (iv) Principles of Social Research.
All students take two additional core modules, selected from: Issues in Public Health; Health Promotion Theory; Health Services; Environment, Health & Sustainable Development; and Health Policy, Process & Power.
For the three specialised streams, one of these modules is compulsory: Environment, Health & Sustainable Development (for the Environment and Health stream); Health Promotion Theory (for the Health Promotion stream); and Health Services (for the Health Services Management stream).
Advanced modules
In Part II students select nine of the following advanced modules: Health Care Evaluation; Economic Analysis for Management & Policy; Economic Evaluation; Analytical Models for Decision Making; Organisational Management; Managing Health Services; Financial Management; Health Promotion Practice; Communicable Disease Control; Environmental Epidemiology; Environmental Health Policy; Medical Anthropology in Public Health; Globalisation & Health; Bacterial Infections; Nutrition and Infection; Parasitology; Water and Sanitation; Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases in Developing Countries; AIDS; Tuberculosis; Malaria; Hospital Infection.
For the three specialised streams, one of these modules is Compulsory: Environmental Health Policy (for the Environment and Health stream); Health Promotion Practice (for the Health Promotion stream); and Organisational Management (for the Health Services Management stream)
Recommendations for order of study of specific modules are covered in the respective course regulations booklet. Specific requirements may apply for some advanced study modules. Not all advanced modules will be available every year.
Project Report
All currently registered MSc students have the option to undertake an project, equivalent to 2 advanced modules, specific to their chosen stream
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
Entrance Requirements: a Second-class honours degree or equivalent in a subject appropriate to the course from a university or other institution acceptable to the University of London and a minimum of one year's relevant work experience.
English: An advanced level of ability to work in English is required. Applicants may be required to pass or to have passed within the last five years, at the appropriate level, a test of proficiency in English acceptable to the University, e.g. a TOEFL score of 600 (or 250 in the computerised test) and a minimum of 5 in the TWE or a British Council (IELTS) overall score of 7 or over with a minimum of 7 in the written sub-test.
Computing Requirements
The list, right, gives the specifications for a computer capable of running the software supplied. A computer with the minimum rather than recommended specifications will be able to use the course but may be rather slow.
Computer: PC capable of running Windows and fulfilling the other requirements.
Please note that Mac`s are not supported for this course. Processor: Pentium or better, 90MHz or higher (recommended).
Memory (RAM): 32MB or higher (recommended).
Hard disk space: 88MB, for Diploma only, 185MB for full MSc, 6MB is the minimum if the sessions are read from the CD.
CD-ROM drive: Double speed or faster recommended.
Operating System: Windows 95 (minimum); Windows 98 or higher (recommended).
Graphics: 256 colours (minimum), 65536 colours or higher (recommended). Resolution 640x480 or higher.
Internet connection: E-mail account (minimum); Web access (strongly recommended).
Printer: Either laser or Ink Jet (recommended).
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