Master in Public Health

Master Public Health

Program Presentation

The Master in Public Health offers an integral training with tools and competencies that allow professionals to cope with the public health problems with a global understanding that enables them to render health services with the necessary quality and assistance. This program looks for a training that is in accordance with the changes on the external and internal environments present in society and that are in line with the scientific and technological progress. All this by theoretical knowledge, analysis of practical cases and exercises that provide the participant with a breakthrough in the understanding of nursing in its main areas of action.

The main purpose of the Master in Public Health is to train experts from different disciplines in the broad field of action in Public Health, who are able to cope with the different perspectives the population’s health conditions via promotion, protection and restoration community health interventions.

The Master is designed to contribute to the training via a high level syllabus, enabling the students to develop a reflective, humanist and critical thinking, in people who are clearly interested ion specializing from a broad and practical approach as well as in recently graduated students who are looking for initiating in some of them.

The Master in Public Health counts on a groundbreaking syllabus, focused on the scientific knowledge’s development and on research, that generates abilities and sustainable solutions to respond to the needs that exercising as a public health professional entails.

Who is the programme for?

This program has two student profiles who although having different characteristics, have complementary points that enable to offer a comprehensive academic proposal:

  • Professionals and graduates: specially graduates in the life sciences fields (medicine, nursing, biology, veterinary...), environmental sciences, statistics, economy, sociology, chemistry and pharmacy, among others; people who wish to obtain a training to develop public health actions in any of its fields (work or research).
  • Other professionals and graduates: who are looking for a training that shows them the needed tools as to efficiently work in their job post offering the best service.

Diploma

Successful completion of the Program will enable you to be awarded the degree in Master in Public Health.

After successfully completing the Program, the student will receive the degree as awarded by the University where they have enrolled.

Program Structure

The academic program length of the Master in Public Health is 100 credits. Regarding time distribution:

  • Since it is an on-line Program, it does not have a specific starting date, so that the student can register at any time, provided that there is enough place.
  • The maximum time available to complete this Master’s Degree is 24 months. In this period of time, the student must have successfully completed all the corresponding assessments, as well as the Final Project.
  • Once the students are enrolled in the Program, they must choose a specialization itinerary: Students must take modules 1 and 2 previously to the chosen itinerary, be the Specialization in Environmental Health, Community Nutrition, Occupational Health, Public Health Management.

The credit structure of the Master in Public Health is as follows:

MODULES  CREDITSa HOURS
1st Part: Research on Public Health 18 180
2nd Part: Public Health 50 500
3rd Part: Elective Module 17 170
4th Part: Master’s Degree Final Project 15 150
TOTAL 100 1000

a. The equivalence in credits may vary according to the University that issues the Diploma. One (1) ECTS credit (European Credit Transfer System) corresponds to 10 + 15 hours. If students attending the program are enrolled in a university not belonging to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), the relationship between credits and hours may vary.

Objectives

General Objective

  • The objective of the Master in Public Health is to train professionals who are capable of coping with the main population’s health conditions with the design and management of group actions aimed at the promotion, restoration and protection of health, as to ensure people’s health with the needed quality and efficiency.

Specific Objectives

  • Strengthening the theoretical-philosophical basis of nursing, with an emphasis on activities that favor the logical thinking and scientific reasoning.
  • Estimating the population’s health needs to cover their real and potential needs, taking into account their social determinants and rights.
  • Evaluating the health systems to be able to propose improvement strategies adapted to the population’s needs.
  • Analyzing the economic, social determinants and the health policies and how they are integrated in the public health interventions.
  • Designing and evaluating plans, programs, projects and services specific to the Public Health, basing on evidence, which promote, restore and protect population’s health.
  • Being able to early detect health conditions and propose solutions to improve the quality of life.

Career Opportunities

Professionals who successfully complete the Master in Public Health will be able to carry out their tasks in positions such as:

  • Public Health Administration
  • Health Administration in Private Entities
  • Social and Health Services Management
  • Research in Public and Private Entities
  • Teaching

Study Plan

The Master in Nursing with a Specialization in Health Management has a curricular structure based on three complementary training parts to get an integral education:

  • 1st PART: RESEARCH ON PUBLIC HEALTH (18 CREDITS)

The first part is looking to deliver practical and theoretical training with updated knowledge on research, boosting the development of abilities to raise adequate research questions and acquire useful abilities and tools to develop research strategies that answer such questions.

Corresponding subjects and working hours are shown in the following table:

1st PART: RESEARCH ON PUBLIC HEALTH
# SUBJECTS CREDITS
1 Scientific Research Methods 5
2 Epidemiology I 4
3 Epidemiology II 4
4 Biostatistics 5
TOTAL 18
  • 2nd PART: PUBLIC HEALTH (50 CREDITS)

The second part groups the knowledge and most important tools related to the public health, with the aim to protect and improve the population’s health.

Corresponding subjects and working hours are shown in the following table:

2nd PART: PUBLIC HEALTH
# SUBJECTS CREDITS
1 Public health’s contextualization 4
2 General Bioethics 4
3 Social determinants in health 4
4 Healthcare systems 4
5 Management of health services 5
6 Demographics and public health 4
7 Health economy 4
8 Health-disease process and equity 5
9 Health and social protection policies 5
10 Public health’s monitoring 5
11 Public health’s programs design and evaluation 4
12 Seminar: Public Health 2
TOTAL 50
  • 3rd PART: ELECTIVES (17 CREDITS)

He third part consists of different elective modules from which the student can choose one. The following is a brief description for each one of them:

ELECTIVE 1: ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

The third elective part corresponding to the environmental health is based on knowledge and tools about environmental health that greatly impact on the population’s health.

ELECTIVE 1: ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
# SUBJECTS CREDITSª
1 Polluting agents in the environment 5
2 Environmental risks and public health 6
3 Environmental toxicology and public health 6
TOTAL 17

a. Number of credits may vary in accordance with the university issuing the master’s degree.

ELECTIVE 2: COMMUNITY NUTRITION

The third elective part corresponding to the community nutrition looks to contribute to a healthier society.

ELECTIVE 2: COMMUNITY NUTRITION
# SUBJECTS CREDITSª
1 Public health applied to nutrition 6
2 Management and assessment of community nutrition 6
3 Food, health and communication 5
TOTAL 17

a. Number of credits may vary in accordance with the university issuing the master’s degree.

ELECTIVE 3: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

The third elective part corresponding to occupational health groups the most relevant tools and knowkedge looking for improving the employees’ occupational health.

ELECTIVE 3: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
# SUBJECTS CREDITSª
1 Occupational medicine 6
2 Occupational toxicology 6
3 Specific occupational risk prevention 5
TOTAL 17

a. Number of credits may vary in accordance with the university issuing the master’s degree.

ELECTIVE 4: MANAGEMENT ON PUBLIC HEALTH

The third elective part corresponding to the health management looks to deliver knowledge and tools to develop an efficient health management in accordance with the different realities that may be present.

ELECTIVE 4: MANAGEMENT ON PUBLIC HEALTH
# SUBJECTS CREDITSª
1 Strategic management of HR 5
2 Team work management techniques 4
3 Management techniques and organizational leadership 4
4 Assistance communication 4
TOTAL 17

a. Number of credits may vary in accordance with the university issuing the master’s degree.

  • 4th PART: MASTER'S DEGREE FINAL PROJECT OR DEGREE THESIS (15 CREDITS)

The Master’s Degree Final Project or Degree Thesis, whose workload is 15 credits, has as its aim to present a complete essay that shows the total development of a project, that contemplates the possibility of its concrete implementation, according to the proposal’s guidelines and details.

Note: The contents of the academic program may be subject to slight modifications, depending on the updates or the improvements made.

Description of the Subjects

1st PART: RESEARCH ON PUBLIC HEALTH.

  1. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

    This subject looks to develop knowledge, abilities and attitudes for the methodological design of a research, drafting the theoretical framework, proving to have a criterion to discern which information should be incorporated and where it should be looked for, how to read academic texts and record the information and describe the necessary processes to draft the research’s final report.

    EPISTEMOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
    SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PROCESS
    HOW TO START AN INVESTIGATION? THE PROJECT: STARTING POINT
    CONSTRUCCIÓN DEL MARCO TEÓRICO
    CONSTRUCTION OF THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
    DESIGN OF THE METHODOLOGICAL STRATEGY
  2. EPIDEMIOLOGY 1

    This subject seeks to provide the basic tools to understand the epidemiology and apply it in health studies. It also gives guidelines on how to perform a quality search on the Internet.

    CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY METHODOLOGY AND IMPLEMENTATION
    RUNNING MEDICINE RESEARCH BASED ON EVIDENCES
    EVALUATION TOOLS
    INTERNET SCIENTIFIC DOCUMENTATION AND ACCESS TO DATABASE AND WEB SITES ABOUT HEALTH SCIENCES
  3. EPIDEMIOLOGY 2

    This subject looks to select the most adequate qualitative research method depending on the study’s typology in the health field in the world, distinguishing the qualitative study phases, understanding its characteristics and differentiating them from the quantitative study’s phases. As well, it associates the different research phases with the guidelines to evaluate the rigorousness in the qualitative research in health.

    THEORETICAL PRINCIPLES OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
    QUALITATIVE METHODOLOGY
    DESIGNING QUALITATIVE STUDIES
    STRATEGIES TO COLLECT DATA AND FOR THE FIELDWORK
    ANALYSING QUALITATIVE DATA
    PRESENTING AND DISSEMINATING RESULTS
    RIGOR IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
    COMBINING QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE METHODS
    ETHICS IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
    CRITICAL READING OF QUALITATIVE STUDIES
  4. BIOSTATISTICS

    This subject provides the concepts and tools needed to understand and use the statistical tools in health studies and understand other studies’ findings.

    DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
    FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION
    CENTRALITZATION AND DISPERSION METHODS
    THREE VARIABLES AND THEIR RELATION
    STRATIFIED ANALYSIS
    CONFUSION AND INTERACTION
    PROPORTIONS AND PROBABILITY
    BAYES THEOREM.
    PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION
    STATISTICAL INFERENCE
    NORMAL DISTRIBUTION AND CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM
    SAMPLE SIZE FOR ESTIMATION
    CASE-CONTROL DESIGN
    CONTINGENCY TABLES
    VARIANCE ANALYSIS
    LINEAR REGRESSION
    RESEARCH STATISTICAL’S POWER
    SAMPLE SIZE FOR TESTS

2nd PART: PUBLIC HEALTH

  1. PUBLIC HEALTH’S CONTEXTUALIZATION

    This subject looks to analyze the historical evolution of the medicine and public health in the world and Latin America. Critically evaluating the organizational architecture of the public health from a multi-discipline vision. It also looks to reflect on the analysis of the historical-social process and the public health’s future.

    PUBLIC HEALTH’S CONCEPTS
    PUBLIC HEALTH’S HISTORY
    FROM DISEASE CONTROL TO HEALTH PROMOTION
    PUBLIC HEALTH’S ORGANIZATIONAL FOUNDATIONS
    FUTURE PERSPECTIVES OF THE COLLECTIVE HEALTH
  2. GENERAL BIOETHICS

    This subject looks to examine bioethics from its historical origins until the multi-discipline approach that currently characterizes and analyzes the bioethics’ action framework, as well as its main goals in the future.

    BIOETCHICS ORIGIN AND DEFINITION
    BIOETCHICS DISCOURSE AND METHOD
    BIOETCHICS’ PRINCIPLES
    FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE
  3. SOCIAL DETERMINANTS IN HEALTH

    This subject looks to analyze the health determinants and its study particularities, and draw conclusions of the different behaviors and effects, inequalities in health and their determinants in the different countries.

    IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATIONS OF THE SOCIAL HEALTH DETERMINANTS
    THE BIOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS
    THE ENVIRONMENT AS A HEALTH DETERMINANT
    THE LIFESTYLE AS A HEALTH DETERMINANT
    MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS OF THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS
    STRATEGIES TO REDUCE INEQUALITIES
  4. HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS

    This subject looks to give knowledge about the policies and different health systems. Learning to diagnose a health system and knowing what primary health care means, its importance and implications.

    POLICIES AND HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
    HEALTHCARE MODELS
    HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS IN THE PUBLIC ASSISTANCE
    DIAGNOSIS OF A HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
    PRIMARY HEALTHCARE AND ITS IMPORTANCE
  5. HEALTHCARE SERVICES MANAGEMENT

    This subject gives the main concepts of health services management, technical aspects and implementation of systems that allow to improve management.

    MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES
    TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF MANAGEMENT CONTROL
    IMPLEMENTATION OF AN INTEGRATED SYSTEM OF MANAGEMENT CONTROL
  6. DEMOGRAPHICS AND PUBLIC HEALTH

    This subject looks to value the demographic evolution of the population’s health and calculating and interpreting the most widely used demographic indicators in public health to be able to analyze the population’s health status.

    DEMOGRAPHICS IN THE PUBLIC HEALTH
    DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS, SOURCES AND DEMOGRAPHIC DATA ELEMENTS
    STATISTICAL DEMOGRAPHICS
    DYNAMIC DEMOGRAPHY
  7. HEALTH ECONOMY

    This subject covers the macroeconomic factors influencing health. It shows aspects related to the economic theory, such as the consumption, expenditure in health care, the health’s offer and demand and relevant aspects of funding.

    HEALTH AND ECONOMY SECTOR
    DEMAND FOR HEALTHCARE ASSISTANCE
    HEALTHCARE ASSISTANCE OFFER
    EFFICACY, MARKET FAILURES AND PUBLIC INTERVENTIONISM
    HEALTH EXPENDITURE AND HEALTH REFORMS THE PHARMACEUTICAL MARKET
    ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF UNHEALTHY BEHAVIORS
    HEALTH AND MACROECONOMICS
    HEALTH FINANCING
  8. HEALTH-DISEASE PROCESS AND EQUITY

    This subject looks to analyze different health conceptions, diverse experiences while being ill, and diverse practices related to the health, taking into account the historical-social context and valuing the importance and characteristics of social inequalities as a key topic for community health.

    HEALTH AND ILLNESS CONCEPT HEALTH-ILLNESS AS A SOCIAL PROCESS
    PREVENTION LEVELS
    HEALTH PROMOTION
    RIGHT TO HEALTHCARE
    INEQUALITIES AND INEQUITIES IN HEALTHCARE GENDER, SOCIOECONOMIC SITUATION, AVAILABILITY/ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE ASSISTANCE
  9. HEALTH AND SOCIAL PROTECTION POLICIES

    This subject looks to review the role of international bodies in the programming and management of social policies analyzing the economic, political determinants and how they integrate into the public health interventions and evaluating the main mechanisms and models to intervene in the health’s protection.

    ACTION POLICIES IN THE PUBLICH HEALTH
    ROLE OF THE INTERNATIONAL BODIES
    HEALTH STRATEGICAL PLANS
    PUBLIC POLICIES ANALYSIS
    GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SOCIAL PROTECTION
    RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SOCIAL PROTECTION
  10. PUBLIC HEALTH’S MONITORING

    The subject looks to analyze the main conceptual and methodological tools related to the design and implementation of an information system for monitoring the public health and developing the main abilities to elaborate, interpret and disseminate the main products derived from the public health’s monitoring.

    THE HEALTH DIAGNOSIS IN THE COMMUNITY. DETERMINATION OF THE NEEDS
    PUBLIC HEALTH’S MONITORING: MAIN OBJECTICES AND BASIC ARCHITECTURE
    DIMENSIONS AND INDICATORS THAT ARE SUBJECT OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH’S MONITORING
    ANALYSIS METHODOLOGIES FOR PUBLIC HEALTH’S MONITORING
    EVALUATION OF AN INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR PUBLIC HEALTH’S MONITORING
  11. PUBLIC HEALTH’S PROGRAMS DESIGN AND EVALUATION

    This subject looks to distinguish the different methodologies to evaluate the health needs and the healthcare planning and design an evaluate plans, programs, projects and services specific to public health, basing on evidence, that promote and protect the population’s health.

    THE COMMUNITY HEALTH DIAGNOSIS IN THE PLANNING PROCESS DETERMINATION OF THE NEEDS
    PHASES IN THE ELABORATION OF A PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAM
    PRIORITIES IDENTIFICATION
    HEALTH PROMOTION AND PROTECTION
    EVALUATION OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH’S PROGRAMS PROCESS
    EVALUATION OF THE IMPACT AND RESULT OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH’S PROGRAMS
  12. SEMINAR

    This seminar poses relevant cases about simulated or real situations related to the public health. The student will need to put into practice what has been learned, the own and acquired knowledge, decision-making, the analysis of diverse scenarios, among other factors, proving a critical and reflective attitude before the problem described.

3rd PART: ELECTIVES

ELECTIVE 1: ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

  1. POLLUTING AGENTS IN THE ENVIRONMENT

    This subject looks to analyze and quantify the toxicity of heavy metals on human beings, hydrocarbons and organochlorides, analyze measure the main radioactive and thermal polluting sources, analyze and value the effects of introducing exotic species in native environments and relate the impact on the marine environment due to the urban waste waters.

    POLLUTION DUE TO HEAVY METALS IN THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT
    MERCUURY
    HYDROCARBONS
    ORGANOCHLORIDES
    RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION
    THERMAL AND EXOTIC SPECIES POLLUTION
    URBAN WASTE WATERS POLLUTION
  2. ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS AND PUBLIC HEALTH

    This subject looks to identify environmental risk factors and value their impact on health and know to design prevention strategies and acting before environmental risks factors and public health.

    ATMOSPHERE’S HEALTH STUDY BIOTIC AIR POLLUTION IMPACT ON FOOD
    ABIOTIC ATMOSPHERE’S POLLUTION AND ITS IMPACT ON HEALTH
    CLIMATOLOGY INTERRELATIONSHIP OF THE DIFFERENT CLIMATES WITH POLLUTION, FOOD AND POPULATION’S HEALTH
    WATER AS A RISK FACTOR DRINKING WATERS AND WASTE WATERS CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL POLLUTION
    ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION DUE TO PHYSICAL AGENTS
    BIOLOGICAL, CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH FOODS
    TOXIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHES: TRENDS, PREVENTION, DERIVDED ILLNESSES AND PANDEMIAS
    ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT EVALUATION PRACTICAL ANALYSIS AND TRENDS
  3. ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH

    This subject looks to evaluate the impacts of the population’s exposure to environmental toxics on public health and design advanced studies in environmental toxicology.

    ERNVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY FOUNDATIONS
    TOXIC SUBSTANCES TYPES, CHANNELS AND EXPOSURE WAYS
    PHYSIOLOGY (REVIEW OF TOXICOLOGY’S ORIENTATION)
    ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOKINETICS AND TOXICOCYNAMICS
    BIOMARKERS
    TOXICITY MECHANISMS
    CONTRIBUTIONS OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY TO THE TOXICOLOGY
    PHYSIOPATHOLOGY AND TOXIC PATHOLOGIES
    MUTAGENESYS AND CARCINOGENESYS
    BEHAVIOR TOXICOLOGY
    ECOTOXICOLOGY
    CHEMICAL AGENTS’ TOXICOLOGY
    PHYSICAL AGENTS’ TOXICOLOGY
    DRUGS’ TOXICOLOGY
    TRENDS IN CELL AND MOLECULAR TOXICOLOGY
    EVALUATION OF THE RISK BY ENVIRONMENTAL TOXIC AGENTS

ELECTIVE 2: COMMUNITY NUTRITION

  1. PUBLIC HEALTH APPLIED TO NUTRITION

    This subject wants to analyze the community actions in public health in nutrition that help guarantee, protect, promote and recover the population’s nutritional health, distinguish the different types of epidemiological studies used in the food behavior research and the causes for the nutritional pathologies and design community nutrition programs based on the scientific evidence foundations.

    FUNDAMENTALS OF PUBLIC HEALTH
    EPIDEMIOLOGY APPLIED TO NUTRITION
    DESIGN OF COMMUNITY NUTRITION PROGRAMS
    FOOD POLICIES AND PUBLIC HEALTH STRATEGIES
  2. MANAGEMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF COMMUNITY NUTRITION

    This subject looks to plan optimally a community nutrition program that allows to establish the decisions and priorities according to the intervention’s scientific foundations, distinguish the different communication techniques in nutrition and transmit the nutritional message to the population effectively,, integrate the rules and ethical codes in the planning of nutritional intervention programs aimed at the population and evaluate the efficiency of the health programs, specially related to the nutrition in the community.

    MANAGEMENT
    COMMUNICATION AND MANAGEMENT’S ANCHORING
    ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
    EVALUATION
  3. FOOD, HEALTH AND COMMUNICATION

    This subject looks to analyze the importance of communication in the nutrition field and its influence on the society’s food behaviors, evaluate the suitability of food products campaigns and propose communication strategies aimed at different populations, that promote healthy food habits and/or that collaborate in the prevention of nutritional pathologies.

    IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNICATION IN NUTRITION
    MARKETING AND HEALTH
    REGULATION OF ADVERTISING
    COMMUNICATION IN NUTRITION AND NUTRITIONAL EDUCATION

ELECTIVE 3: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

  1. OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE

    This subject looks to identify the employee’s occupational risks or group of employees and develop health promotion at work, design risk prevention strategies that may affect human health as a consequence of the circumstances and working conditions and value and put into practice the actions needed to treat and/or rehabilitate occupational diseases and work-related diseases.

    INTRODUCTION TO OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE
    HEALTH MONITORING
    OCCUPATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
    HEALTH PROMOTION AND PLANNING AT WORK
    WATER RESCUE AND FIRST AID
  2. OCCUPATIONAL TOXICOLOGY

    This subject looks to detect the factors that influence occupational toxicology, compare and contrast the environmental and biological monitoring functions in the evaluation of the different job posts, describing the main methodological principles and the operation of the monitoring tools to monitor environmental pollutants at the different job posts.

    INTRODUCTION TO OCCUPATIONAL TOXICOLOGY
    LIMITS OF OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE TO HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES LEGISLATION IN FORCE
    ENVIRONMENTAL AND BIOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF THE OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE TO TOXIC COMPONENTS
    EVALUATION OF EXPOSURE IN OCCUPATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY STUDIES
    CLINICAL TOXICOLOGY
    TOXOCIOLOGY ANALYTICAL METHODOLOGY
  3. SPECIFIC OCCUPATIONAL RISK PREVENTION

    This subject looks to analyze the main working conditions and occupational risks and evaluate the interventions and preventive policies in the occupational health field.

    GENERAL PREVENTION CONCEPTS
    OCCUPATIONAL RISK TYPES
    HEALTH DAMAGES
    ESPONSIBILITIES SYSTEM REGARDING OCCUPATIONAL RISKS PREVENTION
    THE LEGAL REGIME OF PREVENTION

ELECTIVE 4: MANAGEMENT ON PUBLIC HEALTH

  1. STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF HR

    This subject is oriented to design the conceptual and methodological framework to recognize the strategic and systemic approach of the current Human Resources Management (HRM) and the importance of the staff to achieve objectives.

    OVERVIEW OF THE EFFECTS OF GLOBALIZATION IN HUMAN RESOURCES
    OVERVIEW OF THE HR DIRECTOR FUNCTIONS
    NEW TECHONOLOGIES IN THE HR MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF HR MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
    MOTIVATION THEORY OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR
    STAFF TRAINING AS A STRATEGIC FACTOR
    EMPHASIS ON THE STAFF
    MANAGEMENT BY DEPARTMENTS
  2. WORK TEAMS MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES

    This subject provides the theoretical and practical elements on groups and work teams, their characteristics, techniques and tools for their effective management.

    GROUP AND TEAM CONCEPTS, THEIR DIFFERENTIAL CHARACTERISTICS
    PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS TO MOTIVATE WORK TEAMS
    COMPETITION LINKED TO TEAM WORK
    MEMBERS AND ROLES IN A WORK TEAM
  3. MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP

    The aim of this subject is to be familiar with and deepen in the styles of leadership and administration, their relationship, differences, importance and theoretical approaches, as well as the skills and abilities necessary for their exercise.

    LEADERSHIP FUNCTIONS AND HARD AND SOFT DIRECTION
    FUNCTIONAL LEADERSHIP IN THE ORGANIZATIONS
    LEADERSHIP MODELS AND STYLES
    OWN STYLE RECOGNITION AND FLEXIBILIZATION
    LEADERSHIP AND ITS RELATION TO THE ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES
    THE MANAGEMENT BY OBJECTIVES
  4. ASSISTANCE COMMUNICATION

    This Subject looks to consider the bio-psycho-social peculiarities of the user/patient to achieve an adequate and integral assistance communication, promote adequate attitudes to get an efficient assistance communication and integrate the news transmission techniques at the individual, familiar and social field.

    THEORY OF COMMUNICATION
    ASSISTANCE COMMUNICATION
    ASSISTANCE COMMUNICATION USES

4th PART: MASTER'S DEGREE FINAL PROJECT OR DEGREE THESIS

The Master's Degree Final Project must be an original and personal work. In addition, it must be a contribution with a strong component applied, on the basis of the previous modules.

Before developing the MDFP, the student must have read the guidelines for its implementation, located in the Virtual Library icon, in the campus. Moreover, students will have to send to their tutor a report with the title of the project to develop, an approximate index and a brief explanation, following the format of the template contained in these guidelines.

This material requires a personal monitoring by the tutor of the Master's Degree Final Project, which, ultimately, will guide the students in their development and will indicate, if necessary, any additional reading that need to be performed.

The tutor will give the approval for the final presentation of the MDFP. Once the project is finished, it must be delivered in digital media for its final evaluation that will be carried out by an appointed tribunal among the rest of the Master’s Degree tutors. The assessment system of the MDFP will take into account the presentation, originality of the topic, structure and its content.

Management

Academic Direction

  • Dr. Maurizio Antonio Battino.  Biochemist researcher and professor at the School of Specialization in Food Science. Professor at the Polytechnic University of Marche. Scientific Director in the European University of the Atlantic.

General Academic Coordination

  • PhD.(c) Irma Domínguez Azpíroz. Coordinadora Internacional Área de Salud. Doctora Candidata en Educación. Máster Internacional en Nutrición y Dietética. Máster en Actividad Física: Entrenamiento y Gestión Deportiva.

Program Coordination

  • PhD. (c) Vivian Lipari Zegarra. PhD candidate. Master's Degree in Public Health, University of Chile. Master's Degree in (c) Administration of Health Services, Federico Villarreal National University, Peru.

Teaching staff and Authors

  • Dr. Luis Vivanco Sierralta. Bioethics Platform. Center for Biomedical Research of La Rioja (CIBIR). Spain
  • PhD. Susana Martínez. Associate Professor in the Biomedical Sciences Department in the area of Physiology at the University of Leon. Personal Researcher at the University Institute of Biomedicine at the University of León. PhD. Cristina Hidalgo González. PhD in Economic and Business Sciences, University of León. Holder teacher of the Applied Economics Department at the University of León.
  • Mg. Ivonne Sanhueza. Master's Degree in Public Health. She holds studies in Health Authority and Public Health Management, Social Management and Public Policies, Health Promotion, Projects’ Socio-Economic Evaluation, among others. Counselor in public health, elaboration of projects and programs, training. President of the administrative-technical management of the Planning and Public Health Department of the Regional Health Direction from Bio Bio in Chile among other administrative job posts.
  • PhD. Karen Adams Ubaldo. PhD. In Public Health, Universidad Cayetano Heredia from Peru. Master's Degree in Programs and Social Projects Management, Universidad Cayetano Heredia. Nutritionist at the Universidad Nacional Federico Villareal from Peru. Professor at the Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, professor at the Universidad Científica del Sur, with a vast experience in social projects’ management.
  • Mg. Eva López García. Master’s Degree in Clinical Practice. Nurse, University of Salamanca. Certified teacher at Professional Teaching for the Employment She has a vast teaching and practical experience. Author of multiple books and scientific articles She is currently working as a collaborator in 5 scientific journals, Teacher at the Foundation for Cooperation, Research and Nursing and Teaching Development of the Area in Health Management and Research from FUNIBER.
  • Mg. Daniel Uribe Parra. Master’s Degree in Public Health, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. Medical Surgeon from the Fundación Universitaria de Ciencias de la Salud de Colombia. Specialist in economic appraisals. Researcher on public health projects, coordinator of the research processes at the health services. Expert in advanced statistical analysis and epidemiological tools.
  • Mg. Vivian Lipari. Master’s Degree in Public Health, University of Chile. Master’s Degree in Healthcare Services Administration, Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal, Peru. Dentistry Surgeon Certification, Universidad Particular San Martín de Porres, Lima Peru. Coordinator and teacher at the Health Management and Research area. 9 years of experience as an online teacher.
  • PhD. (c) Carmen Lilí Rodríguez Velasco. PhD in Education from the Iberoamerican International University (in process). Master’s Degree in Labor and Organizational Psychology at the University of La Habana, Cuba. International Academic Coordinator of the Management Development, Business Organization and Human Resources Area, FUNIBER.
  • Dr.(c) Lucibel Vásquez. PhD in Social Intervention, University of Barcelona. Master’s Degree in Psycho-gerontology, University of Barcelona. Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology, Univ. San Martín de Porres de Lima.
  • Dr. Jorge Crespo. PhD from the University of Cantabria. Civil Engineer from the ISPJAE (Cuba). Degree acknowledged by the Ministerio de Educación Superior de España. Expert in Modeling and Computational Simulation of deterministic and stochastic phenomena. He has been a Professor at the Structure Engineering Department and Associate Professor of the Math Department from the Civil Engineering Faculty from ISPJAE. He counts on more than 15 years of experience teaching subjects related to math, statistics and 10 years in structural engineering and 5 years of experience in online teaching. Coordinator of the Master's Degree Programs in Strategic Management with specialization in Technology at FUNIBER and Coordinator of Graduate Programs at the European University of the Atlantic, where he currently teaches in the Biostatistics, Statistics and Algebra subjects.
  • PhD.(c) Lidia Henriques. PhD Candidate in Education. Master’s Degree in Palliative Care, Portuguese Catholic University. Bachelor’s Degree in Clinical Psychology, University of Lisbon. PhD. Alicia Alvarez. PhD in Psychology. Specialist in General Health Psychology. Professor in Clinical and Health Psychology at a private university. Postgraduate Degree and extensive clinical experience in two distinct areas: (a) Research and intervention in Perinatal Clinical Psychology and Neurobehavioral Evaluation. (b) Research and intervention in Psychology of Emergencies. Person in charge of the research and care area of a specialized unit within the public university.
  • Mg. Carolina Fajardo. Bacteriologist, Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca. Master’s Degree in Biochemistry Sciences, Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Specialist in Clinical Epidemiology, Universidad el Bosque. Bacteriologist, Clinical Epidemiologist and Master's Degree in Biochemistry Sciences. Broad experience in the clinical and research field, experience in public health and epidemiology: Drafting research projects in public health and basic sciences. Coordination of health projects at a national level. Evaluator of articles in the Asociación Colombiana de Hemato-Oncología and in the journal Revista de Pediatría de Colombia.
  • PhD. Yamile Adriana Celis. PhD. in Public Health with a Master's Degree in Sciences, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Bacteriologist, Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca. Vast experience as a researcher and specialist in Molecular Biology.
  • Ms. María Eugenia Luna Borgaro. Master’s Degree in Human Resources and Knowledge Management, University of Leon, Spain. Expert in Human Resources and Leadership Skills Management. Teacher at FUNIBER.
  • Mg. Tania Herrera Martínez. Master’s Degree in Business, Queensland University (Australia). Master’s Degree in Management for Globalization and Master’s Degree in Public Health, University of Chile. Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine, University of Chile.
  • Mg. Laura Prieto Parra. Master’s Degree in Public Health, University of Chile. Academic Coordinator within the Master’s Degree in Public Health, University of Chile.
  • Mg. Javiera Parro Fluxá. Master’s Degree in Public Health, University of Chile. Teacher of the Research Area at the Los Andes University, Chile.
  • Ms. Marcela Salazar Gonzalez. Registered Nurse. Master’s Degree in Education with major in educational computing Diploma in Health Humanization. Clinical Coordinator at the School of Medicine, Finis Terrae University. Teacher at the Institute of Bioethics, Finis Terrae University.

FUNIBER Training Scholarships

The Iberoamerican University Foundation (FUNIBER) allocates periodically an extraordinary economic item for FUNIBER Training Scholarships.

To apply, please fill out the information request form that appears in the web of FUNIBER or contact directly the Foundation’s headquarters in your country that will inform you if you need to provide some additional information.

Once the documentation is received, the Evaluation Committee will determine your application's eligibility for the FUNIBER Training Scholarship.