GB · Masters
MSc Demography Health
Program information
Program overview
This MSc provides rigorous training in demography and population studies The curriculum comprises demographic methods and theory epidemiology statistics and data analysis Many of our societies continue to face a diverse set of demographic challenges and opportunities including rapid population ageing extremely low as well as very high fertility and sizable population migration These and other demographic trends have important repercussions in all possible domains of life from voting behavior to living arrangements labour markets and economic growth tax revenues and pension systems carbon emissions and the demand for education health and social services Demography in other words may well be the single most defining factor of the world that we live in The MSc Demography Health equips students with the theories and skills to understand and quantify macro-level population dynamics and their downstream implications for health and health policies Students are further trained in the analysis of micro-level processes that govern population change including fertility and reproductive behaviour the exposure to health risks and population mobility Analysis tools and techniques are applied to high-income settings where high-quality data are usually abundant to resource constrained settings that are covered by partial or deficient information systems
Duration: 10
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