MSc Health, Population and Society

Full-year programme. Students must take courses to the value of three full units and a dissertation

Paper

Course number and title

1

SA4D1

Health and Population in Contemporary Developed Societies (H)

SA4D2

Health and Population in Developing and Transitional Societies (H)

2

One of the following half unit courses:

 

DV411

Population and Development: An Analytic Approach (H)

DV421

HIV/AIDS and Other Emerging Health Threats (H)

SA481

Population Analysis: Methods and Models (H)

SA485

Planning for Population and Development (H)

SA492

Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, Implementation and Evaluation (H)

 

SA493

Demography of the Developing World (H)

SA4D6

Health Systems and Policies in Developing Countries (H)

3

Courses to the value of one-and-a-half units from the following:
Any course not taken in 2

 

IS415

Healthcare Information Systems (H)

SA407

Financing Health Care (H)

SA408

Health Economics (H)

SA427

Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy (H)

SA429

Social Exclusion, Inequality and the 'Underclass' Debate (H)

SA447

Foundations of Health Policy (H) 

SA488

Social Policy: Goals and Issues (H)

SA4C3

Statistical Methods in Health Care Economic Evaluation (H)

SA4C4

Cost-effectiveness Analysis in Health Care (H)

SA4C9

Social Policy: Organisation and Innovation (H)

SA4D3

Valuing Health (H)

SA4D4

Measuring Health System Performance (H)

SA4F1

Migration: Population Trends and Policies (H)

SA4F3

US Health Policies (H)

SA4F6

Pharmaceutical Economics and Policies in Developing Countries (H) (n/a 11/12)

SA4F8

Behavioural Public Policy (H)

 

A related course from another programme

4

SA4B3

Dissertation on a topic approved by the supervisor, to be handed in by 1 September

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