SPUM15037U Advanced Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Master of Public Health
- Health planning - an overview of principles and methods
- Prioirty setting across diseases and their consequences - burden of disease estimation
- Priority setting across causes of disease - attributable burden
- Priority setting across population groups - tackling health inequalities
- Intersectorial health promotion: health in all policies, health impact assessment
- Clinical prevention in health care systems
- Evidence criteria in public health
- Evaluation of prevention: Randomzied and non-randomized study designs. Levels of analysis and levels of causal inference.
Knowledge:
Princples and methods of health planning incl.
- needs assessment
- burden of disease measurement
- health impact assesment
- target setting
Skills:
Ability to perform
- local epidemiological analysis of prevention needs and targets
- balance priorities related to cost-effectiveness, equity and local adaptation
- critical assessment of literature on causation, effectiveness and implementation
- evalutae effect and implementaiton of local public health programs
Competence:
- Ability to plan and evaluate preventive public health programs given the epidemiological pattern, economic frames, political priorities and local context.
Will be available at ABSALON
Shared module 1A, shared module 2 and shared module 4 or equivalent qualifications
- Category
- Hours
- Class Instruction
- 40
- Exam Preparation
- 20
- Preparation
- 150
- Total
- 210
or http://mph.ku.dk/optagelsen/ for new students
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Course participationWritten assignmentActive particaption and submission of four assignments. Three of them must be approved.
- Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- passed/not passed
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
One internal examiner
Criteria for exam assesment
During the course the student will have to write 4 small tasks on questions distributed in advance. At least one of them will have to be with a single author, others may be made in groups of 2-4 students.
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- SPUM15037U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- Part Time Master
- Duration
- Ten weeks (week 15 to 24)
- Placement
- Spring
- Schedule
- ?
- Course capacity
- No limit
- Continuing and further education
- Price
11.000 DKK
- Study board
- Curriculum Comittee of the Master of Public Health Programme
Contracting department
- Department of Public Health
Course responsibles
- Rudi GJ Westendorp (10-83717f80717a707b7e7c4c7f817a703a77813a7077)