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MSc Public Health and Wellbeing

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    MSc 1 year full-time

Course Description

This innovative MSc provides an excellent grounding in public health, health promotion and wellbeing.

It provides a career-relevant range of modules and assessment methods in a stimulating learning environment. It has supportive lecturers who have real-world experience of working in UK and international public health.

This course provides a fascinating and well-balanced programme of study.

You will take a variety of interesting and engaging modules. 

It is designed to develop your knowledge and skills in public health and wellbeing with a focus on individuals and communities.

The course is suitable for:

  • graduates of all disciplines
  • those planning to work in public health, health promotion and wellbeing 
  • individuals who have a public health and health promotion remit within their current role. 

Why choose this course?

This innovate course provides you with a supportive and enjoyable learning environment in which to pursue your passion for improving public health and wellbeing. Through this course you will have the opportunity to:

·         learn about the issues that affect health and gain essential knowledge and skills necessary to plan, deliver and evaluate innovative health promotion interventions

  • strengthen your management and leadership skills, which are essential for working in a public health role.

Students from a wide variety of backgrounds are very welcome:

  • general nurses
  • mental health nurses
  • midwifes
  • people involved in the health and fitness industry
  • people working with local authorities
  • sexual health workers
  • voluntary workers
  • youth workers

and many more.

Entry Requirements

A 2:2 degree or above in a relevant subject.

We welcome those with a clinical background, but this is not necessary. An informative and well-written supporting statement is also required.

We hope to attract a mix of students from different academic backgrounds. We welcome those with a background in arts, science or social science. If your first degree is in subjects as diverse as Photography, English, Human Biology, Computing, Sociology and Economics, you will be welcome.

Similarly, if you are working in, for example, fitness and sports, money and housing advice, beauty, tourism and customer services, or in health services, these areas, and more, can all provide experience that is relevant and can be built on throughout the course.

Any experience of work relating to public health and knowledge of public health would be desirable. Please provide this in a statements of 500 words or more.

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Fees

http://www.uwl.ac.uk/international/fees-and-scholarships/postgraduate-fees

Student Destinations

Public health and wellbeing is a field that has relevance for a range of employers including:

• health care services (including NHS)
• local authorities
• government agencies (including Public Health England)
• charities
• non-government organisations (NGOs)
• recruit public health
• practitioners and specialists
• the voluntary sector (including health charities).

Module Details

You will study four modules per semester. There are two semesters in one academic year.

Teaching takes place at Paragon House, Brentford.

In your first semester you take the core module:

  • Public Health Perspectives (20 credits)

And three other modules from the following (20 credit) modules:

  • Public Health Policy
  • Measuring Public Health and Wellbeing
  • Leadership for Public Health and Wellbeing

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