MSc in Health, Population and Society

Programme Code: TMHEPOSO

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

Paper

Course number and title

1

SA4D1

Social Epidemiology (H)

SA4D2

Global Health and Population Change (H)

2

One of the following half unit courses:

 

DV411

Population and Development: An Analytic Approach (H)

DV421

Global Health and Development (H) 

GI417

Gender, Population and Society (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

Demographic Change and Development (H) (n/a 15/16)

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 under paper 2

 

MG483

eHealth: Policy, Strategy and Systems (H) (formerly IS415)

SA407

Financing Health Care (H)

SA408

Health Economics (H)

SA427

Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy (H)

SA429

Understanding Social (Dis)advantage (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)

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

Notes

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.