M.Sc.Lifestyle Medicine
| Lugar de estudios | Lituania, Kaunas |
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| Área académica | Public Health 12.7 (ISCED 7212) |
| Tipo | Master, educación a distancia |
| Duración nominal | 1.5 years (90 ECTS) |
| Idioma de estudio | inglés |
| Títulos | M.Sc. (Master's Degree in Health Sciences) |
| Código de curso | 6211GX006 |
| Colegiatura | 5.157 € por año |
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| Costo de inscripción | 150 € una vez |
| Depósito | 250 € una vez Non-refundable. |
| Costo de registro | Por confirmarse You need to choose an individual service package. Please contact the center curator or your agent and consult. You become a part of student union and ambassador program automatically after you will get Base or Standard or VIP status. *Do not forget to ask discount |
| Calificación de ingreso | Diploma de grado superior (o superior) BSc in Biomedical Science. Transcript of Grades shall be attached to the Bachelor’s Degree Diploma. High School Certificate shall be provided, too. Applicants must upload education documents in original language, as well as translations into English. Diplomas and transcripts issued outside EU must be legalized with a legalization stamp or Apostille. Debes llevar contigo los documentos académicos de ingreso originales cuando vayas a la universidad. Please, upload in the system scan copies in good quality of your education certificates and diplomas. |
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| Requisitos de territorio | NO se aceptan solicitudes de los siguientes territorios (según la ciudadanía): Bangladés, Irak, Pakistán, Yemen. |
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| Requisitos de idioma | inglés TOEFL IBT – at least score 75; |
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| Otros requisitos | Se debe proveer al menos 1 referencia(s). Debes adjuntar una carta de presentación a tu solicitud. • motivation (online interview) |
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Resumen
Faculty (School) of Public Health was established in 1994. It is a place where variety of research and training competences meet together, enabling those who work in public health practice and research to effectively confront the challenges of rapidly changing health care system. Public health and health management fields require lifelong learning. The competences in biomedical, social, psychological and multicultural areas that affect health of population are necessary for the modern public health professionals, health managers or health politicians. To meet this challenge, new creative methods of training and research are widely applied in our training programmes. Our teachers are well-known researchers, policy makers, international public health activists and WHO experts sharing their wide experience with students and young researchers.
The study programme Lifestyle Medicine aims at training mediators in unifying classical community focused public health with person oriented health services. These health specialists will be able to prevent and manage different risk factors, change individual behaviors related to chronic noncommunicable diseases, and also work as members in medical teams, especially primary services setting, public health bureaus and private practice.
Competences you will develop:
- consult individuals about healthy lifestyle (nutrition (diet), physical activity, harmful habits and stress control) on matters within their competences, according to the need in collaboration with health care professionals;
- evaluate the risk of harmful habits and addictions, unhealthy nutrition, lack of physical activity and other health risk factors;
- ability to increase personal motivation to change behavior, to create a personal behavioral correction plan and assess changes of behavior;
- ground priority of health strategy and policies, principles of health system management and evaluation, modern health impact assessment methods; promote and implement in practice modern healthy lifestyle principles for the society;
- define needs and possibilities of the primary, secondary and tertiary disease prevention; implement interventions, based on disease prevention programs, environment and lifestyle change projects; implement them and evaluate their effectiveness;
- identify and assess the environmental, lifestyle, psychosocial and biological health risk factors; holistically approach to their management;
- analyze and interpret the population health indicators, organize and implement population and individual health monitoring and evaluation.
Estructura del curso
First year
Modules: Public Health, Nutrition, Physical Activity and Health, Mental Health and Lifestyle, Master thesis and research methodology
Second year
Modules: Elective courses, Practice, Master thesis.
Oportunidades profesionales
After the graduation you can:
- prevent and manage different risk factors, change individual behaviors related to chronic noncommunicable diseases, and also work as members in medical teams, especially primary services setting, public health bureaus and private practice;
- continue studies for doctoral degree