Please note that you should apply for this programme via the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
This programme aims to develop critical analysis of issues within health policy, planning and financing, and be able to devise appropriate health policy responses. The programme is taken by students from a wide range of backgrounds including: social science or medical training; health service managers or health care providers and those who have worked in national health care systems, international agencies or NGOs. This is a joint programme provided by LSE and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. This programme provides training relevant to countries at all levels of development, although participants are able to specialise in issues of common concern to countries with similar health systems and problems.
Graduates from this programme go into international and national health policy and planning. They work for governments, international agencies, NGOs and the private sector as health policy-makers, researchers, advisers or work in advocacy or training.
Programme structure
Please refer to the LSE Calendar| to access current course guides, which include preliminary reading lists. Please note that the Calendar information is for the 2011/12 academic session and may be subject to change in 2012/13. Not all options will be available every year and the choice of options may be constrained by timetable limitations.
Please refer to the Department Index of courses| for information about course suspension, withdrawal and capping (limited places) in 2012/13 as it becomes available.
* half course unit
Core courses
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SA407 Financing Health Care*
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Health Services* (LSHTM)
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SA4G9 Dissertation
Option courses
One half unit from the following LSE courses:
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SA408 Health Economics*
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SA427 Pharmaceutical Economics*
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SA447 Foundations of Health Policy*
Plus one half unit from the following LSHTM courses:
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Health Policy, Process and Power*
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Basic Epidemiology*
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Issues in Public Health*
Plus an additional two full units from the following:
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SA4C3 Statistical Methods in Health Care Economic Evaluation*
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SA4C4 Cost-effectiveness Analysis in Health Care*
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SA4D3 Valuing Health*
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SA4D6 Health Systems and Policies in Developing Countries*
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SA4E9 Advanced Health Economics*
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SA4F8 Behavioural Public Policy
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Economic Evaluation* (LSHTM)
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Economic Evaluation for Health Policy* (LSHTM)
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Health Impact and Decision Analysis* (LSHTM)
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Analytical Models for Decision Making* (LSHTM)
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Organisational Management* (LSHTM)
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Conflict and Health* (LSHTM)
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Primary Health Care Revisited: Concepts, Tools and Experiences in Low and Middle Income Countries* (LSHTM)
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Globalisation and Health*(LSHTM)
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another half course unit with permission
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