BSc (Hons) Public Health and Health Promotion

• A Level: Must include passes at A2 in at least one subject.
• BTEC: Extended Diploma (QCF) or Diploma (QCF)
• International Baccalaureate: Diploma with 24 points including a minimum of 15 points at Higher Level.

Note: We would normally expect you to have Grade C in GCSE English and Maths.

English Language Requirements:

• Overall IELTS score of 6.0 with a minimum of 6.0 in Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking (or recognised equivalent).

In year one, we’ll give you an introduction to the UK’s health and healthcare systems and an understanding of the personal and professional skills you’ll need. We’ll also introduce you to essential research methods. 

In your second year, you’ll be taught by people currently working in health management in an employability module which will bring real-life working practice, and problems, straight to you. 

The only other compulsory module in your second year deals with research skills and methods. The rest of the time, you can pick modules to suit your particular interests.

You can choose from modules that include Social Patterns of Health and Illness, Health Policy, Global Health or Practical Epidemiology, the study of how, and why, disease occurs in different people.

You'll spend a large part of your final year completing a personal research project which will allow you to combine your new-found expertise in the fields of public health and its promotion.

Year 1

• Understanding Health and Healthcare in the UK 
• Personal and Professional Skills 
• Introduction to Research Methods

Optional:

• Introduction to Epidemiology 
• Key concepts in Health Promotion 
• Introduction to health systems and their management

Year 2

• Employability
• Research Methods and Skills 

Optional:

• Social Patterns of Health and Illness 
• Services and Operations Management in Health systems 
• Practical Epidemiology 
• Health Policy
• Global Health 

Year 3

• Research Project

Optional:

• Integrative public health
• Service design, transformation and leadership 
• Critical practice and perspectives in health promotion 
• Evidence synthesis 
• Prevention and control of CDs and NCDs
• Infection control in healthcare 
• Gender, Sexuality and Health
• Health promotion and later life 
• Global and local perspectives in health 
• Strategy and commissioning 
• Health service finance
• Professional practice in healthcare
• Comparative Health Services
• Patient safety and service quality 
• Achieving health service improvements using Lean Six Sigma
• Service Quality in Healthcare