MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing

Programme code: TIHPPF

Full-year programme taught jointly with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Students must take courses to the value of five 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.

Paper

Course number and title

1

SA407

Financing Health Care (H)

2

(LSHTM)

1107 Health Services (H) or (LSHTM) 1117 Health, Policy Process and Power

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)

1107 Health Services (H)

(LSHTM)

1117 Health Policy, Process and Power (H)

(LSHTM)

1123 Issues in Public Health (H)

(LSHTM)

2001 Basic Epidemiology (H)

5-6

Two LSE Courses* from the following:

 

SA4C3

Statistical Methods in Health Care Economic Evaluation (H)

SA4C4

Cost-effectiveness Analysis in Health Care (H)

SA4D3

Valuing Health (H)

SA4D4

Measuring Health System Performance (H)

SA4D6

Health Systems and Policies in Developing Countries (H)

SA4E9

Advanced Health Economics (H)

SA4F8

Behavioural Public Policy (H)

Another LSE Course (not listed above) with permission.

7-8

Two LSHTM Courses* from the following:

 

(LSHTM)

1304 Health Impact and Decision Analysis (H)

(LSHTM)

1402 Conflict and Health (H)

(LSHTM)

1403 Organisational Management (H)

(LSHTM)

1501 Economic Evaluation (H)

(LSHTM)

1503 Globalisation and Health (H)

(LSHTM)

1504 Economic Analysis for Health Policy (H)

(LSHTM)

1606 Analytical Models for Decision Making (H)

(LSHTM)

1808 Health Systems (H)

Another LSHTM Course (not listed above) with permission.

9

SA4G9

Dissertation for MSc Health Policy, Planning and Financing

Notes

* At the discretion of the Programme Directors, students may be given the flexibility to choose an additional course from one institution, up to a total of four courses between both institutions under paper 5, 6, 7 and 8. For example, three courses from LSE under paper 5-6 and one course from LSHTM under paper 7-8, or vice versa.

It is not always possible to offer students a place on each of their preferred courses. This is particularly the case where courses are offered outside the Department of Social Policy (ie not prefixed with 'SA'). For further information please see lse.ac.uk/socialPolicyCourses.