Studienort	Litauen, Kaunas
Akademischer Bereich	Public Health 12.7 (ISCED 7212)
Art	Master, Fernstudium
Nominale Dauer	1.5 years (90 ECTS)
Studiensprache	Englisch
Auszeichnungen	M.Sc. (Master's Degree in Health Sciences)
Kurscode	6211GX006

Studiengebühren	5.157 € pro Jahr
Bewerbungsgebühr	150 € einmalig
Anzahlung	250 € einmalig Non-refundable.
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Einstiegsqualifikation

Bachelor-Abschluss (oder höher) 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. Sie müssen die Originalnachweise über die Eingangsqualifikation mitnehmen, wenn Sie schließlich zur Universität gehen. Please, upload in the system scan copies in good quality of your education certificates and diplomas.

Gebietsanforderungen	Bewerbungen aus den folgenden Gebieten werden NICHT akzeptiert (basierend auf der Staatsbürgerschaft): Bangladesch, Irak, Jemen, Pakistan.

Sprachanforderungen	Englisch Akzeptierter Nachweis der Sprachkenntnisse: FCE or CAE, IELTS 5.5+ or TOEFL 69+ TOEFL IBT – at least score 75; IELTS – at least score 5.5; PTE General – at least level B2; FCE – at least level B; CPE – satisfactory pass; CAE – satisfactory pass

Sonstige Voraussetzungen	Mindestens 1 Referenz/en muss/müssen angegeben werden. Ein Motivationsschreiben muss Ihrer Bewerbung hinzugefügt werden. • motivation (online interview)

Übersicht

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.

Programmstruktur

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.

Karrieremöglichkeiten

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