This programme intends to provide state-of-the-art training for population and health issues, both substantive and policy related. In the last 50 years the improvements in health have been dramatic in both developed and developing societies. As a result the average life expectancy of human populations increased rapidly. Western societies are being faced with an ageing population, in a new demographic regime of low mortality and low fertility. Their governments are faced with difficult decision making on health expenditure and health reform to meet these demographic changes. While some developing societies in Asia and Latin America are following this experience, most of Sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing a mortality crisis as a result of the escalating HIV/AIDS epidemic. What will be the future implications of health and mortality in this region? How will the population structure and growth be influenced? What will be the policies to avoid this epidemic and improve the health of these populations? These and many more questions will be dealt in this new master programme.
It is difficult to separate the demographic and the health aspect and the policies that should respond to them. This is why the new programme sees population and health issues closely related to each other and so are the policies responding to them. This is quite unique in its approach. The course will meet the needs of both professionals and those who wish to pursue a research career. The programme represents a shift from the core interests in population and health to a multidimensional approach.
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.
(H) half course unit
Core courses
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SA4D1 Health and Population in Contemporary Developed Societies*
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SA4D2 Health and Population in Developing and Transitional Societies*
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SA4B3 Dissertation on a topic approved by the supervisor
One of the following half unit courses:
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DV411 Population and Development: An Analytic Approach*
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DV421 HIV/AIDS and Other Emerging Health Threats*
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SA481 Population Analysis: Methods and Models*
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SA485 Planning for Population and Development*
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SA492 Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, Implementation and Evaluation*
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SA493 Demography of the Developing World*
Option courses
Choose to the value of a further one and a half full units (usually as three half units) from a selection that includes any not taken above or examples such as:
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IS415 Healthcare Information Systems*
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SA402 Social Policies for Ageing Populations*
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SA407 Financing Health Care*
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SA408 Health Economics*
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SA427 Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy*
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SA429 Social Exclusion, Inequality and the 'Underclass' Debate*
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SA447 Foundations of Health Policy*
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SA488 Social Policy: Goals and Issues*
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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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SA4C9 Social Policy - Organization and Innovation*
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SA4D3 Valuing Health*
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SA4D4 Measuring Health System Performance*
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SA4D6 Health Systems and Policies in Developing Countries*
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SA4F1 Migration: Population Trends and Policies*
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SA4F3 US Health Policies*
SA4F6 Pharmaceutical Economics and Policies in Developing Countries*
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SA4F8 Behavioural Public Policy*
Awards available
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ESRC/PIC Masters Studentship Scheme in Population Studies
Value: £15, 000
Please refer to the PIC website for full information.
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