MSc Health Policy, Planning and Financing

Full-year programme taught jointly with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Students must take courses to the value of four units as shown below, and undertake a 10,000 word dissertation. It is highly recommended that students select courses which spread the workload over the course of the year. The dissertation will be completed during the summer.

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Course number and title

1

SA407

Financing Health Care (H)

2

(LSHTM)

 1107 Health Services (H)

3

Obligation for all students to take one additional course (half unit) at LSE from the following:

 

SA408

Health Economics (H)

SA427

Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy (H)

SA447

Foundations of Health Policy (H)

4

Obligation for all students to take one additional course (half unit) at LSHTM from the following:

 

(LSHTM)

1117 Health Policy, Process and Power (H)

(LSHTM)

2001 Basic Epidemiology (H)

(LSHTM)

1123 Issues in Public Health (H)

5-8

Any combination of the following to the value of two full units:
Health Economics

 

SA4C3

Statistical Methods in Health Care Economic Evaluation (H)

SA4C4

Cost-effectiveness Analysis in Health Care (H)

SA4D3

Valuing Health (H)

SA4E9

Advanced Health Economics (H)

(LSHTM)

1501 Economic Evaluation (H)

(LSHTM)

1504 Economic Analysis for Health Policy (H)

 

Health Policy and Management

 

SA4D4

Measuring Health System Performance (H)

SA4D6

Health Systems and Policies in Developing Countries (H)

SA4F8

Behavioural Public Policy (H)

(LSHTM)

1304 Health Impact and Decision Analysis (H)

(LSHTM)

1606 Analytical Models for Decision Making (H)

(LSHTM)

1403 Organisational Management (H)

(LSHTM)

1402 Conflict and Health (H)

(LSHTM)

1456 Primary Health Care Revisited: Concepts, Tools and Experiences in Low and Middle Income Countries (H)

 

Epidemiology and Health Trends

 

(LSHTM)

1503 Globalisation and Health (H)

 

Students can take a half-unit LSE course not listed above or a half-unit LSHTM Module (Terms 1-3), subject to availability and approval by the Programme Directors.

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SA4G9

Dissertation for MSc Health Policy, Planning and Financing

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