Public Health (PG Dip and PG Cert)

Course Structure

1. [\'E&H: Environment & Health\', \'HP: Health Promotion\', \'HSM: Health Services Management\', \'Gen: You can choose not to specialise and take the General stream\', \'Basic epidemiology\', \'Basic statistics for public health and policy\', \'Introduction to health economics\', \'Principles of social research\', \'Issues in public health\', \'Environment, health and sustainable development\', \'Health promotion theory\', \'Health services\', \'Health policy, process and power\', \'Analytical models for decision making\', \'Communicable disease control\', \'Economic analysis for management and policy\', \'Economic evaluation\', \'Environmental epidemiology\', \'Environmental health policy\', \'Health care evaluation\', \'Financial management\', \'Globalisation and health\', \'Managing health services\', \'Medical anthropology in public health\', \'Organisational management\', \'Principles and practice of health promotion\', \'Project report\', \'Statistical methods in epidemiology\', \'Bacterial infections\', \'Nutrition and infection\', \'Parasitology\', \'Hospital infection\', \'Water and sanitation\', \'Epidemiology and control of infectious diseases in developing countries\', \'AIDS\', \'Tuberculosis\', \'Malaria\', \'Introduction to public health and control of infectious diseases\', \'Structured tutorial feedback and advice on set assignments submitted for assessment.\', \'Students also have access to a student-to student network (WebBoard) - this allows registered students to communicate with each other and to provide mutual support and to receive input from tutors.\', "past examination papers and examiners\' reports", \'regulations\', \'handbooks\', "a copy of the Manager\'s Good Study Guide", \'subject guides\', \'CD-ROMs (for two modules)\']