Public Health (MSc)

Attendance & duration

Full-time (day/eve): one year, three days per week or equivalent

Part-time (day/eve): two years, days per week or equivalent

Start dates

Full-time and Part-time (day/eve) September and February

CAMPUS

London North campus
Ladbroke House

COST

September 2012
Full-time
UK and EU students: £6,300
International students: £10,800

Part-time
UK and EU students: £700 per 20 credit module



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Overview

MSc Public Health is a unique social science based multi-disciplinary course that focuses on the wider determinants of health and well-being. It is based on the view that public health strategies reach far beyond the health care system. It provides a comprehensive coverage of the twenty-first century complexities of both national and international public health. The course aims to develop critical understanding of the impact of social determinants of health on populations and the range of political, social, economic, environmental and health interventions that might improve population health. It also evaluates key principles and concepts that underpin public health developments and interprets evidence crucial for decision-making and problem-solving in public health policy and practice. Ethical dimensions of public health are also a key consideration.

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Applying and entry

PLEASE NOTE There is no official closing date for this course, but you are advised to apply as early as possible as we will only consider your application if there are places available on the course.

Tel: 020 7133 4202
Email: admissions@londonmet.ac.uk

Normally an upper second class Honours degree in a relevant subject or related areas. Those with relevant professional or technical qualifications or extensive professional experience will also be considered.

Additionally, undertaking Social Epidemiology and the triple-module dissertation by those who have completed the University’s Postgraduate Diploma in Community Nursing or the new Postgraduate Diploma in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing provides a top-up route to this MSc.

Course contents

Students will take four core modules, two optional modules and a dissertation of around 15,000 words.

Core modules:

  • Public Health and Health Promotion
  • Social Research: Principles and Practice
  • Social Epidemiology
  • Health in the City
  • Dissertation

Optional modules include:

  • Management in Health and Social Services
  • Managing Self and Others
  • Managing Public Services
  • Mental Health Promotion
  • Perspectives of Ageing
  • Developments and Management in Community Care
  • Partnership Working and Management
  • Project Management
  • Issues in Contemporary Health Policy
  • Social Structures and Policies
  • Children and Changing Families: Policy, and Practice
  • Ethical Issues in Biomedical Science
  • Nutrition Politics and Policy

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Assessment
A variety of methods, including seminar papers, presentations, essays, coursework reports, mini projects, case studies, unseen examination and a final dissertation.

Careers

Completion of the course provides a wide career pathway in population health within NHS organisations, community organisations, government agencies, local authorities, health promotion agencies, human rights agencies, health sectors abroad, international health institutions, academia, the business and voluntary sectors. Some graduates may undertake advanced research studies.

Student profiles

Read a student profile: Guadalupe Patino-Robles