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Health Education and Promotion – (M.Sc.)
Maastricht University
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences
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| Application Deadline: | Start in 1 September: July (non-EEA: April). | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 1,771 ≈ € 12,000 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Maastricht / Netherlands / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Credits (ECTS): | 60 | ||
| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Maastricht University
This programme revolves around developing, evaluating and promoting health interventions at the individual, community and policy levels.
Do you like working with certain groups - children, older people, employees, patients? Do you want to help make environments and organisations conducive to healthy living? Are you interested in why people smoke, drink, or overeat - an in helping to change these behaviours? The programme combines aspects of psychology, communication, epidemiology, biomedicine, sociology, political science, management & statitics to help you in promoting health and wellbeing. You address questions like: How can we change our surroundings to make it easier to engage in health behaviour? How can we use social networks to promote health? Why do so many people intend to do something, but fail to actually do so? This is a one-year full-time or two-year part-time programme taught in English
Contents
Types of teaching (in year 1):
- theory: 0%
- practice: 0%
- self study: 0%
Programme internationalization:
- Studying abroad is optional.
This programme has a workload of 60 ECTS.
Courses:
Cancer Prevention(3 ECTS):
Course type: regular
This course is given in year 1
This course is required to apply to.
Best Practices in Health Education and Promotion(6 ECTS):
Course type: regular
This course is given in year 1
This course is required to apply to.
Analysis of Determinants: Practical Training(3 ECTS):
Course type: regular
This course is given in year 1
This course is required to apply to.
Intervention Mapping(6 ECTS):
Course type: regular
This course is given in year 1
This course is required to apply to.
Worksite Health Promotion(6 ECTS):
Course type: regular
This course is given in year 1
This course is required to apply to.
Prevention of Mental Health Problems(6 ECTS):
Course type: regular
This course is given in year 1
This course is required to apply to.
Organisational Change and Transformation(6 ECTS):
Course type: regular
This course is given in year 1
This course is required to apply to.
Internship & Thesis(18 ECTS):
Course type: regular
This course is given in year 1
This course is required to apply to.
Preparation for the thesis research project(6 ECTS):
Course type: regular
This course is given in year 1
This course is required to apply to.
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test if you come from a non-English speaking country.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
More informationRequirements
Successful applicants must have one of the following:
- a bachelor´s degree issued by a Dutch or a non-Dutch university in a relevant domain;
- a bachelor´s degree issued by a non-university institute in the Netherlands. This programme should be equivalent to at least four years of nominal study time (240 ECTS points).
- a bachelor´s degree issued by a non-university institute in Belgium in a relevant domain. This programme should be equivalent to at least three years of nominal study time (180 ECTS points)
- a bachelor´s degree issued by a University of Applied Sciences in Germany, Austria or Switzerland in a relevant domain. This programme should be equivalent to at least three years of nominal study time (180 ECTS points), and is accredited by one of the following accrediting institutes: Germany: AHPGS, ACQUIN, AQAS, ZevA; Austria: FHÖ; Switzerland: QAQ
In addition, successful candidates who hold a bachelor´s degree issued by a non-university institute or a University of Applied Sciences in a relevant domain must satisfy the following three requirements:
- sufficient scores on the `Methodology and Statistical´ examination;
- sufficient scores on an essay;
- sufficient scores on a Letter of Expectation.
Non-EU students must submit a score on the IELTS or TOEFL test (not older than five years at the start of the programme). Applicants are eligible for exemption provided they submit proof of `sufficiency´ in their English-language training, e.g. if English is their native tongue or if English language skills were tested before, for instance during their preliminary training at high school.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade C (Score: 60) |
Accreditation
- Maastricht University programmes all approved by the Dutch Ministry of Education and accredited by the Nederlands-Vlaamse Accreditatieorganisatie (NVAO), the Dutch-Flemish Accreditation Organisation
- The UM School of Business and Economics (SBE) internationally accredited by the renowned AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA, making it one of a few international schools with all three accreditations. The bachelor's and master's programmes in International Business offered at SBE also received in 2010 the NVAO "certification of internationalisation".
- Bachelor's programme in European Public Health accredited by the German Akkreditierungsagentur für Studiengänge im Bereich Gesundheit und Soziales (AHPGS)
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