Public Health, Health Equality
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This Master’s Programme in Public Health has a specific focus on Health equality, e.g. on methods for studying causes and dynamics of health inequalities as well as models for levelling out potential inequities. The purpose of the programme is to prepare students for successful participation in strategic and practical public health work within regional, national and/or international institutions as well as for further studies at postgraduate level.Public health science is a multidisciplinary field that places questions about health and disease in a social context. Its breadth implies that there is a need for a deeper understanding of specific themes, in this case the mechanisms behind inequality and inequity in health. Public health science focuses on the importance of society’s organization and other structural factors (political, economic and cultural) for the health status of populations, including studies of the social determinants of health, e.g. income and educational level, discrimination, access to healthcare and so forth. Based on this, the discipline increasingly deals with questions about whether the distribution of health within a population is equal and fair, that is, if variations in the health of different groups can be referred to structural factors and therefore are possible to change.Term 1The programme starts with courses that focus on the basic principles, fields of application and research methods in public health science. The first course presents foundations and core topics within public health science, that lays the bases for a better understanding of how inequality and inequity in health can be analyzed and how health equity can be structurally counteracted, is discussed.Term 2The second term of the programme begins with a course in epidemiology and biostatistics, which prepares for the following in-depth courses by addressing quantitative methodology. Then a course specifically focusing on social epidemiology follows, which is the sort of epidemiology that investigate how social determinants of health contribute to or counteract health development within a population.Term 3The third term of the programme offers elective in-depth courses. The first one aims to increase students’ knowledge on how to deal with unfair health differences through strategic management, different programs and methods, and continuous evaluation of health outcomes. The course continues working on the topic brought up at the end of the social epidemiology course, i.e. how public health science evidence can be translated into policy formulations, and discusses how concrete actions can be developed and evaluated in relation to achieving goals for health equality development.Term 4The programme is completed with a full term thesis course where students work on their master’s thesis project, which may include field studies and should relate to Health equality.
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Gothenburg
Västra Götaland County
411 34
Sweden
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