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MSc Public Health (Health Services Research)

Program Affiliation: The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Location: London England

Term 1

Students take the four compulsory modules constituting the Public Health common core: Basic Epidemiology; Basic Statistics for Public Health & Policy; Introduction to Health Economics; and Principles of Social Research. In addition, students intending to follow this stream must take Health Services. The remaining module can be s... read more Term 1

Students take the four compulsory modules constituting the Public Health common core: Basic Epidemiology; Basic Statistics for Public Health & Policy; Introduction to Health Economics; and Principles of Social Research. In addition, students intending to follow this stream must take Health Services. The remaining module can be selected from Environment, Health & Sustainable Development; Health Policy, Process & Power; Health Promotion Theory; or Issues in Public Health.

Terms 2 and 3

Students take a total of six study modules, one from each timetable slot. The list below shows recommended modules. Where only one study module is shown this is compulsory.

C1: Health Care Evaluation.

C2: Design & Analysis of Epidemiological Studies; Economic Analysis for Health Policy; Health Impact & Decision Analysis; Qualitative Methodologies; Statistical Methods in Epidemiology. .

D1: Economic Evaluation; Environmental Epidimiology; Medical Anthropology in Public Health; Social Epidemiology.

D2: Reviewing the Literature.

E1: Proposal Development.

E2: Advanced Statistical Methods in Epidemiology; Analysing Survey & Population Data; Analytical Models for Decision Making; Health Systems; History & Health; Sociological Approaches to Health.

Project Report

Each student will undertake a research project. This may begin during two of the compulsory modules in Terms 2 & 3 (Reviewing the Literature and Proposal Development) and continues full-time after the written examinations in June. Less