The MPH - Master of Public Health provides a firm foundation in the science and art of promoting health and preventing disease. Its multidisciplinary approach will enable you to put public health principles into practice in both research and practical contexts. The individual and teamwork skills you acquire will prepare you for a range of positions in a variety of public, NGO and international settings.

Master of Public Health – MPH

Our MPH programme gives you a thorough understanding of all the main disciplines of public health, providing a strong basis for a high-level career in the field.

The core modules cover epidemiology and qualitative research methods, including the application of appropriate study designs, their critical appraisal and the essential principles and procedures for ethical practice. You personalise your Masters through a wide range of electives from Health Impact Assessment to Health Promotion, from Environment and Health to Public Health Nutrition....

The Master of Science program in Exercise Science is designed to prepare students to work as professionals in corporations, wellness centers, hospitals, sports medicines centers, amateur and professional athletics, health clubs, resorts and spas, community associations such as the YMCA and YWCA, colleges, universities, school districts, and rehabilitation centers. More specifically, the program will provide students with the knowledge and skills to enable them to function as exercise specialists, technicians, strength coaches, and personal and athletic trainers. Finally, the program will provide the opportunity for individuals who are currently employed in these professional areas to enhance their ability to advance to such positions as coordinators and/or directors and head athletic trainers. The program offers two concentrations: Exercise Physiology and Athletic Training....

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The current focus on the concepts of health - disease, rising demand and health needs of the population, changes in the risk of illness and death of the population, the reorganization of services and technological advances Epidemiology impose a new practice style, which must be guaranteed by an educational process leading to the preparation tion of professionals able to address through research and existing challenges and provide leadership at all levels of the health organization for the achievement of the Essential Public Health Functions, which epidemiology is pivotal. Similarly, in the Colombian legislation has generated processes of modernization and decentralization of the sector which have led to an increase in the delegation of functions to local authorities in epidemiology department, municipal district and leading to need new players in health competencies innovative and scientifically trained for the performance and compliance with delegated responsibilities. ...

The MSc Community Eye Health program aims to provide eye health professionals with the knowledge and skills required to reduce blindness and visual disability in their populations. The training would enable them: to develop a community oriented approach to eye health in line with the aims and objectives of VISION 2020, The Right to Sight; to plan for appropriate services for their societies' eye health needs ; to facilitate a personal development in public health; to engage with the local, national and international network of health professionals, to reduce and prevent blindness in the world.

It is estimated that there are 161 million visually disabled people in the world, 37 million of whom are blind (excluding refractive error data). The majority of these people live in developing countries. An estimated 80% of blindness is avoidable. The major avoidable causes of blindness are cataract, trachoma, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, refractive errors, vitamin A deficiency and onchocerciasis. Appropriate planning and implementation of eye health services is required to address this global health problem....

The European Master in Sustainable Regional Health Systems is a two years long interdisciplinary programme of 120 ECTS that aims to give vision, knowledge and tools to develop and manage coherent health systems that contribute both to health and sustainable regional development in their regional communities.

The European Master in Sustainable Regional Health Systems aims to fill the gap in Health Management by approaching the theme of health system management and planning on a regional level.

This Master promotes the benchmarking of the different health system models helping to construct the comprehensive health system management and planning, including both health care and promotion, as well as the interrelation between health and socio-economic areas. It aims to spread out the European model of health promotion and health planning, sustainability and the role of health system in social cohesion and strengthening of social capital....

The Master Health Sciences is an innovative programme with specializations in Health Technology Assessment and Health Services and Management.

New medical-technological developments have changed our perception of optimum healthcare. An ageing population has led to an increase in the incidence of diseases such as Parkinson, Alzheimer and strokes. In the long term, we can expect a huge rise in the demand for healthcare. Moreover, patients are becoming more demanding: they are no longer prepared to sit back and wait, but are taking on the role of critical consumers. Also increasingly stringent quality requirements and amendments to legislation and regulations are now occurring in healthcare insurance systems....

Health Care Technology (HCT) is a unique Master’s curriculum in Estonia as well as in Europe, being part of the Institute of Clinical Medicine. Estonia is the first country to start teaching HCT in this all-inclusive form.

The Institute of Clinical Medicine was established as part of the Technomedicum of Tallinn University of Technology on January 23rd 2007.

The Institute operates as a science-, study- and development establishment in the medicine sphere. Clinical medicine is an area which builds a competence bridge between biomedicine and the clinical manifestation of diseases.

Institute adds the missing expertise to the development of the preferential areas in TUT (such as chemistry- and biotechnology, biomedicine)....

MPH is a research-based programme in the methods of public health science intended for people who want to increase their knowledge and skills in public health work with individuals, groups, and communities, both at home and abroad.

Special emphasis is placed on the public health of children and adolescents and how to work towards better health among those individuals. T

he area of public health studies works closely with the Icelandic Centre for Social Research and Analysis (ICSRA) which conducts research into the social well-being of youth in Iceland. The ICSRA grants students access to diverse research projects stored in the Centre's database....