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Global Health and Wellbeing – (M.Sc.)
University of Dundee
School of Nursing
| Location: | Dundee / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 36 months | Start Date: | January, September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of University of Dundee
This programme aims at having a positive influence on global health by producing practitioners capable of acting as change agents in strengthening fragile health systems and reducing health inequalities in low/medium income countries.
This is a distance learning course, enabling participation by both national and international students drawn from a range of health related disciplines. The course will be delivered in a part-time (three years) mode. This part-time distance learning approach to the programme design allows students to study in their home country whilst engaged in practice, allowing them opportunities to directly apply the programme content to impact on their sphere of professional practice.
Students undertaking this programme will be engaged in promoting global health in some capacity, whether this is at a strategic national level, for example contributing to the development of global health policy; at a strategic local level, for example being responsible for plans to strengthen a local system of health care; or working at the interface of delivering a health initiative to a community, for example as a project worker, or health professional.
Regardless of the level at which the practitioner is working along this continuum, as change agents, they need to be able to critically analyse and evaluate all those factors influencing a situation (whether these are political, historical, economical, cultural etc.), be able to apply evidence-based knowledge and to reconstruct the situation in a realistic and workable way. The MSc Global Health and Wellbeing develops these skills by adopting a model of inquiry design.
Contents
Students are required to complete three core modules each attracting 30 credits:
- Critical Appraisal Skills for Practitioners- provides students with the skills required for critical inquiry, problem-solving and evidence-based practice by developing their skills of information gathering and critical appraisal of evidence
- Global Health- enables students to engage with concepts and subject areas that directly affect health systems and generate health inequalities, including the relationship between the natural and social environment, public health and epidemiology
- Health Systems and Project Management- encourages students to develop a systems thinking and analysis approach to developing effective ways of strengthening local health systems.
Students are also required to complete two option modules each attracting 15 credits:
- Global Communicable Disease (1): Addressing the Burden
- Global Communicable Disease (2): Epidemiology and Control of Priority Diseases
- Global Non Communicable Diseases (1): Chronicity and Trends
- Global Non Communicable Diseases (2)
- Maternal and Infant Health
- Palliative Care: My Perspective
The opportunity to undertake two option modules allows students to focus on areas of particular relevance to their area of professional practice. For some students this may be exploring ways of managing current problems and challenges such as communicable disease outbreaks, infant and maternal inequalities. Other students may wish to focus on anticipating future health trends such as the increase in chronic diseases, the need for palliative care and ways to provide appropriate health systems to deal with these issues.
Alternatively, students may wish to undertake thePractice Development: Independent Study (30 credits), rather than two of the options modules listed above. This module allows students the opportunity to explore an area of specific or specialist interest in depth.
Students are also required to complete a double-weighted Dissertation attracting 60 credits. The Dissertation provides students with the opportunity to develop and demonstrate, under supervision, their academic, organisational and technical skills in the formulation, execution and writing-up of a research project investigating a topic pertaining to global health, or a critical review of an aspect of global health care or policy.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
Both UK and international postgraduate students from a range of disciplines who have completed an undergraduate degree in a relevant subject will be eligible to undertake the programme.
English Language Requirement: IELTS of 6.5, with minimum of 6.0 in any component (or equivalent), if your first language is not English.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.5 |
| TOEFL Paper-based: | 575 |
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