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London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine MSc Demography & Health
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

MSc Demography & Health

London, United Kingdom

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Sep 2024

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Introduction

MSc Demography & Health

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.

The teaching programme gives students ample opportunity to select from a wide range of modules in statistics, epidemiology public health, and the social sciences, and thus tailor their curriculum to either focus on the technical aspects of data analytics and demographic estimation, or, take a more interdisciplinary approach to the study of population and health.

Objectives

By the end of this program students should be able to:

  • demonstrate advanced knowledge and understanding of scientific, evidence-based approaches to the study of population issues
  • assess and apply these approaches to inform development, health and population programmes
  • formulate research questions and use demographic and health data, and appropriate methods of analysis, to address them
  • identify causes and consequences of population change and relate these to underlying population dynamics
  • demonstrate advanced knowledge and understanding of demographic behaviour in social, economic and policy contexts
  • assess and apply findings of population studies to health and social policy
  • demonstrate advanced knowledge and understanding of major population trends, including historical trends, in developed and developing countries

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