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LSE-LSHTM MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing

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Classification scheme for the award of a taught master's degree (five units)

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Programme Code: TIHPPF

Department: Health Policy

For students starting this programme of study in 2019/20

Full-year programme taught jointly with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Students must take courses to the value of five units as shown below, and undertake a 10,000 word dissertation (value of one unit). It is mandatory that students take equal number of half-unit value courses (4:4 split) between the two institutions. It is required that exactly two first-term courses are taken at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The dissertation will be completed during the summer.

Course guides for all LSE courses can be accessed via the hyperlinks below. For information about LSHTM courses, the LSHTM module specifications can be viewed here.

Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and may be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.


Paper 1

HP400 Financing Health Care (0.5)

Paper 2

(LSHTM) 1107 Health Services (0.5) or (LSHTM) 1117 Health Policy Process and Power (0.5) A

Paper 3

Obligation for all students to take one additional course to the value of 0.5 units at LSE from the following:

 

HP401 Introduction to Health Policy and Politics (0.5) A

 

HP403 Health Systems and Policies in Developing Countries (0.5)  (not available 2022/23)

 

HP420 Health Economics (0.5)

 

HP424 Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy (0.5)

Paper 4

Obligation for all students to take one additional course to the value of 0.5 units at LSHTM from the following:

(LSHTM) 1107 Health Services (0.5)
(LSHTM) 1117 Health Policy, Process and Power (0.5) A
(LSHTM) 1123 Issues in Public Health (0.5)
(LSHTM) 2001 Basic Epidemiology (0.5)

Papers 5 & 6

Two LSE courses from the following:

 

HP402 Measuring Health System Performance (0.5)

 

HP404 Global Health Policy: Institutions, Actors and Politics (0.5)

 

HP405 Social Determinants of Health (0.5)

 

HP407 Evidence Review and Synthesis for Decision Making (0.5)

 

HP421 Economic Analysis for Health Policy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (0.5)

 

HP422 Health Care Economic Evaluation (0.5) B

 

HP423 Advanced Health Economics (0.5) #

 

HP425 Statistical Methods in Health Care Economic Evaluation (0.5) #

 

HP428 Randomised evaluations of health programmes: from design to implementation (0.5)

 

HP429 Behavioural Incentive Design in Health and Health Care (0.5)

 

Another LSE course (not listed above) with permission.

 

Or any additional LSE course listed under Paper 3:

Paper 3 options list

Papers 7 & 8

Two LSHTM courses from the following:

(LSHTM) 1127 Evaluation of Public Health Interventions (0.5)
(LSHTM) 1400 Health Care Evaluation (0.5)
(LSHTM) 1402 Conflict and Health (0.5)
(LSHTM) 1403 Organisational Management (0.5)
(LSHTM) 1501 Economic Evaluation (0.5) B
(LSHTM) 1503 Globalisation and Health (0.5)
(LSHTM) 1504 Economic Analysis for Health Policy (0.5) 
(LSHTM) 1606 Analytical Models for Decision Making (0.5)
(LSHTM) 1701 Reviewing the Literature (0.5)
(LSHTM) 1803 Sociological Approaches to Health (0.5)
(LSHTM) 1808 Health Systems (0.5)
(LSHTM) 2342 Design and Evaluation of Mental Health Programmes (0.5)
(LSHTM) 2402 Statistical Methods in Epidemiology (0.5)
(LSHTM) 2417 Design & Analysis of Epidemiological Studies (0.5)
(LSHTM) 2437 Epidemiology and Control of Communicable Diseases (0.5)

 

Another LSHTM course (not listed above) with permission.

Paper 9

HP409 Dissertation for MSc Health Policy, Planning and Financing (1.0)

Paper 3 options list

HP401 Introduction to Health Policy and Politics (0.5)

HP403 Health Systems and Policies in Developing Countries (0.5)  (not available 2022/23)

HP420 Health Economics (0.5)

HP424 Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy (0.5)


Prerequisite Requirements and Mutually Exclusive Options

# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.

Footnotes

A : HP401 Introduction to Health Policy and Politics may not be combined with LSHTM 1117 Health Policy, Process and Power.

B : HP422 Health Care Economic Evaluation may not be combined with LSHTM 1501 Economic Evaluation.


# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.

For any pre-requisites on LSHTM courses, check LSHTM course specifications.

Note for prospective students:

For changes to graduate course and programme information for the next academic session, please see the graduate summary page for prospective students. Changes to course and programme information for future academic sessions can be found on the graduate summary page for future students.