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Master of Public Health
The
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine offers this course on a
part-time basis over four years or full-time over two years.
The Master of Public Health degree is a vocational course which aims to equip
students with the full range of quantitative, analytical and communication
skills necessary to work in the broad domain of public health. This requires
competence in the quantitative methods of the population-based health sciences
and the ability to apply these methods to solve problems in areas such as
health services research, public health policy and planning, clinical
epidemiology, environmental health, occupational health practice, international
health and the provision of primary care within the Australian community and
developing countries.
Applicants must have a medical degree, a bachelors degree with honours or
graduate diploma, or a three-year bachelors degree with relevant professional
experience in a health-related field. The department will individually assess
applications from students with a nursing diploma completed before the
introduction of nursing degrees.
This
course is comprised of eight core subjects, four or six health specialisation
subjects and either a major or minor supervised research project.
- MPH2034 Sociological foundations of public health
- MPH1016 Health promotion
- MPH1030 Epidemiology and demography
- MPH1031 Introductory statistics
- MPH2013 Research methods and computing (not offered in 2001)
- MPH1003 Environmental influences on health
- MPH2031 Public health policy
- MPH2035 Health economics, management and evaluation
- Supervised research project
- Clinical epidemiology
- Health services management
- International health
- Occupational and environmental health
- Health economics (planned for 2001 subject to university approval)
- General stream (any combination of above health specialisation
streams)
- MPH2037 Measurement in clinical research
- MPH2038 Clinical decision analysis (not offered in 2001)
- MPH2000 Applied biostatistical methods
- MPH2039 Meta analysis
- MPH2018 Infectious diseases epidemiology
- MPH2009 Drug epidemiology (not offered in 2001)
- MPH2007 Methods for chronic disease epidemiology
- MPH2056 Injury epidemiology and prevention
- MPH2066 Clinical leadership and management
- MPH2065 Law for health systems
- MPH2067 Principles of health care quality improvement
- MPH2068 Financial issues in health care management
- MPH2069 Health policy and information management
- MPH2049 Field methods for international health planning and
evaluation
- MPH2048 Primary health care in developing countries
- MPH2050 Health of women and children
- MPH2053 Public health in refugee settings
- MPH2054 Nutritional issues in developing countries
- MPH2055 Health ethics and human rights
- MPH2057 Aboriginal health
- MPH2058 Managing community-based HIV programs
- MPH2022 Assessment and control of workplace hazards
- MPH2041 Occupational health and safety management
- MPH2026 Industry and the environment
- MPH1042 Epidemiological research methods (not offered in 2001)
- MPH2043 Chemical and biological hazards
- MPH2044 Ergonomics and physical hazards
- MPH2042 Organisation and health
- MPH2045 Principles of health risk assessment
- MPH2056 Injury epidemiology and prevention
- MPH1008 Clinical occupational and environmental medicine
Assessment
is by a variety of methods including written exercise, assignment, examination,
presentation, class participation and supervised research project.
Inquiries
should be directed to the Postgraduate Office, Department of Epidemiology and
Preventive Medicine, Monash Medical School, Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road,
Prahran, Victoria 3181.
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