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

• Per Kragh Andersen (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 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.

Main teachers

• Finn Diderichsen (Denmark )

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.

Six two days seminars with themes after the students choice and group supervision related to the master's project.

The MPH-programme offers several elective advanced modules of which the student is supposed to choose one of 10 ECTS points.

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.

The aim of the course is to bring together different perspectives on a central public health issue, social inequalities in health. The perspectives are from epidemiology, policy analysis, health service research, history, international health and philosophy. What are social inequalities in health? We will address questions such as: How can social inequalities be studied and explained? Which differences are unjust? How can the inequalities be reduced?

Health policy is a core component of western welfare states. It is also a very complex and contested policy field where hierarchical, market, clan and network based governance forms meet and sometimes conflict. A diverse range of national and international actors influence health policy making. This seminar will provide an introduction to comparative health policy analysis as a method for analysing and comparing health systems. The Nordic health systems are used as case examples, but comparisons are made to other types of health systems in Europe (and to some extent the US). Comparative health policy analysis and regulation theory will be presented as possible theoretical foundations for analyzing differences and similarities. Potentials and problems in comparative analysis methods will be discussed with a special emphasis on performance rankings such as the WHO World Health Report 2000.

The purpose of the course is to introduce foreign students and students from other institutes and universities to the Danish health situation, health care and public health activities on the basis of the research performed at the Institute of Public Health. When ever relevant, there should be a comparative perspective, where Denmark is compared to other countries.