MSc Health Promotion and Public Health
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MSc Health Promotion and Public Health
Dr Wendy MartinProgramme Leader Brunel University
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HPPH Programme• A key focus is to enhance and develop theoretical,
conceptual, historical and critical understandings of public health and health promotion.
• To apply critical knowledge and understandings to explore ethical, political and policy debates that inform public health and health promotion policy / practice
• Provide an academic learning experience in a supportive environment that aims to produce reflective practitioners, policymakers and academics
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Interdisciplinarity• A range of subject disciplines informs the
curriculum eg Epidemiology, Demography, Policy, Sociology, Psychology, Geography, History, Critical Public Health, Critical Health Promotion
• Principles, perspectives and practices in Health Promotion and Public Health – core skills and knowledge
• Diverse methodologies: statistics, qualitative, quantitative, media, systematic reviews
• Link theory and policy / practice
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Course Content
• Principles, Perspectives and Practice in Promoting Health
• Global Context of Health Promotion and Public Health
• Social Context of Health Promotion and Public Health
• Health Policy and Public Health
• Changing Health Behaviours and Educating Communities
• Research Methods• Research Design • Dissertation
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Examples of current topics of research interests
• Online support mechanisms for people living with HIV
• Perceptions of body shape and obesity in adults from ethnic minority groups
• Knowledge and awareness of dietary behaviours impact on health in gym users
• How does the Connecticut welfare card system impact on shopping / eating habits?
• Exploring the perceptions of the Ghanaian community living in London towards accessing Voluntary Counselling HIV testing (VCT)services
• What are the perceived (health) benefits associated with active participation in choral singing?
• To understand the perceptions and motivations behind women volunteering to help victims of rape, sexual assault, domestic violence through a 24 hours counselling service telephone line in Canada
• Health policy and governance in Iran • Perceptions of health and risk in India• What are the views on growing old in
Taiwan and their own care in old age of Swiss Catholic missionaries?
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Student Profile• Of interest to a wide range of professionals working
in health and social care, local government, education and the voluntary sector
• Of interest to students with first degrees in health, social sciences, biosciences, biomedicine who want to gain knowledge and skills in health promotion and public health
• International, UK and EU students• Full time – over 1 year• Part time – over 2 – 3 years • Teaching days - Tuesdays / Wednesdays
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Employability• Links with key local and inter/national health promotion and
public health providers and specialists – to develop networks • Careers initiatives within the programme • Transferable skills• Inter/national employment opportunities eg to gain skills and
knowledge for development of health initiatives • Professional – eg public health / health promotion roles; health
and social care; voluntary and government sector; NGOs • Academic – doctoral study – we also provide a Doctorate in
Public Health
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Contact Details
Dr Wendy Martin (Programme Leader)[email protected] Tel: (01895) 268747
Karen Clayton (Administrator)[email protected]: (01895) 268819