The module aims to develop the participants’ professional competences to analyse the need for prevention and health promotion in any setting. The participants should be able to design, plan and evaluate any preventive or health promotion programme and to provide deeper insight and to develop further skills within this parts of public sciences.

The focus of the module is prevention and health promotion within the health care system. Biological Physical-Chemical, Social Psycho-socio elements, strategies, programmes and projects: principal and logical structure, development, implementation, monitoring, management and evaluation. Further, careful reading and review of scientific articles is an important part of the module.

Main teachers

• Hans Keiding (Denmark )

The module aims to develop the participants? professional competences to analyse the need for prevention and health promotion in any setting. The participants should be able to design, plan and evaluate any preventive or health promotion programme and to provide deeper insight and to develop further skills within this parts of public sciences.
The focus of the module is on prevention and health promotion within the health care system. Biological Physical-Chemical, Social Psycho-socio elements, strategies, programmes and projects: principal and logical structure, development, implementation, monitoring, management, evaluation. Further, careful reading and review of scientific articles is an important part of the module.

Stress is a rising public health problem with important consequences for the general well-being and health of the population, as well as for the labour market and the health sector. About ten percent of all Danes say that they experience high levels of stress in their daily life. Thus, even relatively small increases in disease risks associated with stress could have a large impact at the population level.

Through an examination of current epidemiological, psychological, social and historical research the course aims at discussing stress as a public health problem. Specifically, we will discuss 1) different definitions of stress and how these are operationalized in research, 2) risk factors for stress, 3) psychological, behavioural, and biological stress responses, 4) health consequences and socio-economic consequences of stress, and 5) stress prevention strategies.

Main teachers

• Finn Diderichsen (Denmark )

Apart from providing with an introduction to the University of Copenhagen and the Institute of Public Health, the course focuses on written and oral academic communication in English.

"As a foreign student newly arrived in Denmark, you might feel somewhat uncertain about Danish academic culture and the nature of studies at the University of Copenhagen. It might also seem rather unclear which standards you are supposed to meet, when writing your academic papers, making oral presentations in class or passing an oral exam. To answer these queries and make sure that you get off to a good start - socially as well as academically - the MPH-programme has organised an introductory course for all foreign students. Following an introduction to the basics of academic culture in Denmark, we will look at the structure and formulation of the informed argument. Through examples and practical exercises, we will examine the construction of a concise thesis statement, and the choice of an appropriate structure and style for academic assignments. We will also look at useful reading and writing techniques, and special attention will be given to academic vocabulary and presentation skills".

Main teachers

• Paul Richmond (Denmark )

The module builds on MPH module 1 and aims to develop the participant’s professional competences regarding:

• critical review and assessment of scientific papers which include epidemiological data and analyses
• analysis of data from standard epidemiological studies, including bivariate, stratified and regression analyses

In-depth study of scientific papers; confounding and bias; matching; intervention studies; multiple logistic regression analysis; analysis of data.
The module builds on MPH module 1 and aims to enable the participants to:

• Be familiar with basic concepts form epidemiology and statistics introduced in MPH module 1
• Analyse simple data from standard epidemiology studies using suitable statistical software (at present SAS)
• Critical read scientific papers which include analysis of epidemiological data.

Main teachers

• Judith L. Jacobsen (Denmark )

Main teachers

• Dan Meyrowitsch (Denmark )

Main teachers

• Signild Vallgarda (Denmark )

Since 1992, the health systems of the countries of the former Soviet Union and the former Eastern bloc undergone a rapid and widespread transformation. This course sets out to address key aspects of the health systems in central and eastern Europe, including:

• Funding and financing (e.g. health insurance models, user fees, public/private divide, allocative efficiency);
• Health policy (e.g. the role of WHO and other key actors involved in health sector reforms);
• The primary/secondary care division (e.g. the role of family doctors and hospitals, regulation);
• Public health (e.g. responses to and the epidemiology of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, TB and sexually transmitted infections);
• Community involvement (the role of non-governmental actors such as civil society and professional organisations).

During the course students will learn to use the European Health for all database and critically analyse health systems and public health data from the region.

Case studies, group work, debates, films and discussions, in addition to lectures and course readings will be employed. A range of experts on the aformentioned topics, from WHO and elsewhere, will lecture as appropriate. Challenges to health systems in the region and research priorities will be reviewed.

Main teachers

• jeffrey V. Lazarus (Denmark )

Stress is a rising public health problem with important consequences for the general well-being and health of the population, as well as for the labour market and the health sector. About ten percent of all Danes say that they experience high levels of stress in their daily life. Thus, even relatively small increases in disease risks associated with stress could have a large impact at the population level.

Through an examination of current epidemiological, psychological, social and historical research the course aims at discussing stress as a public health problem. Specifically, we will discuss 1) different definitions of stress and how these are operationalized in research, 2) risk factors for stress, 3) psychological, behavioural, and biological stress responses, 4) health consequences and socio-economic consequences of stress, and 5) stress prevention strategies.

Main teachers

• Naja Rod Nielsen (Denmark )