MSc Health, Population and Society

About the MSc programme

This programme is based in the Department of Social Policy |and offers the following benefits:

• Study the interrelations between population, development and health.
• The chance to develop methodological skills used in population studies. 
• The chance to examine health and population interactions and policy implications in considerable depth.
• Teaching by specialists who are at the forefront of their disciplines.

Students normally need at least an upper second class honours degree or its equivalent. No particular academic background is required.

The programme involves completing courses to the value of three full units and a 10,000 word dissertation on a relevant topic.

Students graduating from this programme are expected to work in national and international institutions dealing with health and population issues, such as WHO, UNFPA, UNDP, IOM, as well as central and local national governments. A large number of our students have been employed in the health sector of their respective countries. Considerable interest has been shown in our students from the non-governmental sector as well as the private one.

Compulsory courses

(* half unit)

• Health and Population in Contemporary Developed Societies*
• Health and Population in Developing and Transitional Societies*
• Dissertation

Plus one from:

• Population and Development: An Analytic Approach*
• Emerging Health Threats and Development*
• Population Analysis: Methods and Models*
• Planning for Population and Development*
• Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, Implementation and Evaluation*
• Demography of the Developing World*

Options

Choose to the value of a further one and a half units (usually as three half units) from a selection that includes any not taken above or examples such as:

• Health Systems and Policies in Developing Countries*
• Healthcare Information Systems* 
• Financing Health Care*
• Health Economics*
• Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy*
• Social Exclusion, Inequality and the 'Underclass' Debate*
• Foundations of Health Policy* 
• Social Policy: Goals and Issues*
• Statistical Methods in Healthcare Economic Evaluation*
• Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care*
• Social Policy: Organisation and Innovation*
• Valuing Health*
• Measuring Health System Performance* 
• Migration: Population Trends and Policies*
• US Health Policies* 
• Behavioural Public Policy*