Master degree program
Public Health

Public Health

QUALIFICATION

  • Scientific and pedagogical direction - Master of Medical Sciences

MODEL OF GRADUATING STUDENT

The goal of the educational program is to train highly qualified and competitive public health specialists who are able to:
- to formulate and solve modern scientific and practical problems, successfully carry out professional activities;
- to ensure rational management of the economy and the activities of health organizations, taking into account the specifics of health care;
- organize and conduct research to continue research in doctoral studies;
- use knowledge in the field of university pedagogy and psychology and teaching experience in high school.

Upon completion of this educational program, it is expected that undergraduates will be able to:
1. Q1 Assess the current state of public health and health care, its problems and development prospects;
2. B2 To evaluate quantitatively and qualitatively the state of health of the population, its determinants, as well as to formulate a plan for effective actions to promote health.
3. Q3 Critically assess data regarding the effectiveness of health interventions, programs, and services.
4. B4 Promote public health by influencing the socioeconomic, physical and cultural environment through health promotion methods, including health education.
5. С1Collect, generate, synthesize, evaluate, analyze, interpret data that measure health status, risks, needs of certain groups of the population.
6. C2 Systematize the main problems and discussions about the methods and strategies of conducting scientific research and the laws governing the development of science.
7. C3 Demonstrate originality and creativity in the implementation of public health activities;
8. C4 Integrate knowledge and cope with complex issues and formulate judgments based on incomplete or limited information.
9. С5 To carry out information-analytical and information-bibliographic work with the involvement of world medical information databases with a high level of evidence.
10. C6 Apply the knowledge gained in pedagogy and psychology of higher education in teaching public health disciplines.
11. C7 Communicate their findings and the knowledge and rationale (limited scope) used to formulate them to specialists and non-specialists.
12. D1 Make your own original contribution to the development of public health.

Program passport

Speciality Name
Public Health
Speciality Code
7M10102
Faculty
Faculty of Medicine and Health

disciplines

Biostatistics and epidemiology
  • Number of credits - 10
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form among master students the ability to use modern epidemiological and statistical concepts in a specific but simple empirical setting, to make forecasts of the development of the health status of the population as a whole and its population groups taking into account social and economic conditions. The discipline studies the basic definitions of statistical theory, methods, algorithms and tools of statistical analysis. When studying the course, epidemiological and statistical documentation (analyzes, tables, figures, etc.) on the relationship between the socio-economic environment and the health of the population as a whole and population groups will be considered.

Environmental epidemiology
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to develop the ability of undergraduates to plan and conduct research in the field of environmental epidemiology using epidemiological and statistical tools to assess the health of the population. The discipline studies epidemiological methods for determining cause-and-effect relationships between morbidity and environmental factors, and a comprehensive assessment of the impact of abiotic and biotic environmental factors on the human body

Foreign Language (professional)
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form practical skills in various types of speech activity in a foreign language. The training course builds the ability to perceive, understand and translate information in the modern global space, participate in scientific events to test their own research. The discipline is aimed at improving competencies in accordance with international standards of foreign language education.

Health education and health promotion
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline is aimed at teaching master students methods and strategies for public health education, developing skills to increase health awareness and promote healthy lifestyles in society. It covers a wide range of topics related to disease prevention, hygiene skills, educating the population about factors influencing health, and measures to strengthen it.

Health problems of the socially vulnerable population
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability of master students to identify and analyze factors affecting the health of socially unprotected people, to assess the contribution of factors affecting the health of socially unprotected categories of the population, to introduce new methods and techniques aimed at protecting the health of citizens in difficult situations. The course examines the patterns of the impact of social conditions and environmental factors on the health of a socially unprotected population.

Health promotion
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form among master students the ability to identify problems in promoting health at various levels of social and political organization, from global to local, to design, implement and evaluate health promotion strategies using standard public health tools and taking into account issues of power and politics. When studying the course, modern scientifically based techniques, methods and means of teaching a healthy lifestyle of the population will be considered. Discipline studies the main preventive directions of modern medicine.

History and Philosophy of Science
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form a holistic systemic understanding of philosophy as a special form of cognition of the world, its main sections, problems and methods of their study in the context of future professional activity. The training course forms the theoretical and methodological basis of research work.

Introduction to Public Health science
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability of master students to conduct scientific research in the field of public health, apply methods of applied research, analyze and process their results, and integrate the results of scientific research in public health into practice. In the course of the discipline, the following topics will be studied: concepts of the methodology of scientific research; system of methods and forms of scientific research; main structural components of scientific research; the problem of the novelty of scientific research.

Managerial epidemiology
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline studies methods for analyzing epidemiological data and their application in healthcare management. Master students learn to assess and control the spread of diseases, develop prevention strategies and respond to epidemic situations. It aims to study the spread of infectious diseases, their causes and mechanisms, and develop strategies and policies for their prevention and control at the health management level.

Organization and Planning of Scientific Research
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: to form a research culture, research competence of a future specialist. The following will be studied: theoretical, methodological and practical foundations of the organization of research activities in the context of the implementation of industrial and innovative development programs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the basics of methodology and methodology of scientific research, logic and structure of pedagogical research.

Pedagogy of Higher Education
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to teach in universities and colleges based on knowledge of higher school didactics, theory of education and management of education, analysis and self-assessment of teaching activities. The training course is aimed at studying the trends in the development of education and the Bologna process. The course will help you master teaching and curatorial skills, various strategies and methods of teaching and education.

Politics, Economics and management in healthcare
  • Number of credits - 8
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability of master students to carry out managerial analysis, carry out program planning, implement and evaluate, translate policies into public health practice, predict the impact of the introduction of new services, technologies in the healthcare sector. The discipline considers the strategy and policy in the field of healthcare, strategic planning and forecasting, the economic content of the financial and economic activities of medical organizations, the analysis of the problems of the healthcare economy, and the specifics of the legal regulation of healthcare organizations.

Psychology of management
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to provide scientific training of highly qualified specialists based on the study of fundamental concepts of management psychology, creating prerequisites for a theoretical understanding and practical application of the most important aspects of the field of management in the process of professional formation. The course is aimed at studying the patterns of development and functioning of mental processes, the basics of effective interaction and conflict resolution, self-development and self-presentation.

Social and behavioral sciences in public health
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline studies the influence of social factors and behavioral patterns on health, teaches the analysis of social determinants of health and the development of health programs based on the social sciences. It combines knowledge from the fields of sociology, psychology, anthropology, public policy and other social sciences to understand how social factors impact on health and how changes in behavior can impact public health.

Data for 2021-2024 years

disciplines

Basics of methodology of teaching public health
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability of master students to use innovative forms and technologies of general scientific methods of cognition, managerial and heuristic methods in the process of teaching the basics of public health, methods of generating ideas for studying psychological and pedagogical processes, solving situationally arising problems, using them in practice and in your own development. Discipline develops the personality of a student who is able to carry out pedagogical in the field of public health of higher education on the basis of acquired competencies, skills.

Bioethics in public health research
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form among master students the ability to analyze modern scientific achievements guided by bioethical norms, determine the ethical aspects of specific public health measures, strategies and policies, apply the legal foundations of bioethics in professional activities and the foundations of philosophical and socio-humanitarian knowledge to form a scientific worldview, basic legal knowledge in various areas of activity.

Database creation and evaluation of research results
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability of master students to use statistics software to perform statistical analysis. The discipline studies the basic concepts of the theory and practice of developing and using databases, as well as the general characteristics of the SPSS and MS Excel application software packages for statistical processing of research data. When studying the course, principles of working with databases and the use of statistical tools in the selection of statistical procedures will be considered.

Evidence-based medicine
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability of master students to collect, analyze, summarize and interpret medical information that allows them to make scientifically evidence-based decisions on the prevention, diagnosis, treatment of diseases and the organization of healthcare. The following topics will be studied during the course: the role and place of evidence-based medicine in modern healthcare; types and designs of research, hierarchy of scientific data by degree of evidence; evidence-based terminology and tools; formulation of clinical issues, conducting an effective search for evidence-based medical information; critical assessment of scientific publications.

Global environmental and occupational hygiene
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline examines the impact of the environment on human health and strategies to protect health in various professional fields. Includes the study of measures to prevent environmentally related diseases and prevent occupational hazards. Covers various aspects of the impact of the environment on human health throughout the global community, as well as methods and strategies for ensuring safety and hygienic standards in the work environment.

Global health and development
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to examine major global health issues, analyze their relationship to social and economic development, and develop strategies to achieve global improvements in health and well-being.This area of ​​research covers a wide range of topics, including, but not limited to, global epidemics and pandemics, health care in developing countries, public health policies, medical education and technology, and international health cooperation.

Global Health and Public Health Systems
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability of master students to interpret the concept and objectives of global health, to predict its impact on public health and the health care system of Kazakhstan. The following topics will be studied during the course: principles and goals of global health; international approaches to public health; major health problems and risk factors in the world; global burden of disease; global health promotion programs.

Health and Environment
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form students' ability to associate the occurrence of the disease with the influence of adverse environmental,industrial or household factors and to propose measures to prevent the negative adverse environmental factors on human health. When studying the discipline, the following are considered: the main provisions of the doctrine of the environment, the patterns of influence of natural, household, and industrial factors on the health and morbidity of the population. The discipline determines the direction of recreational activities under the influence of adverse environmental factors on human health.

Health services research and health policy
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to study the basic methods and tools of health research, as well as health policy analysis. When studying the discipline, master students will study the following aspects: conducting an assessment of compliance with regulatory requirements in the field of sanitary and epidemiological well-being and preparing recommendations, conducting a sanitary and epidemiological audit by an organization accredited and authorized to conduct examinations in this area, surveys, studies, tests, toxicological, hygienic and other types of assessments and objectively state the degree of compliance (non-compliance) with the sanitary rules of the activity carried out.

Modern methods of environmental research
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline is training in modern scientific methods and technologies used to study the state of the environment and its impact on human health and ecosystems. It covers a wide range of scientific disciplines such as ecology, geography, chemistry, biology, and includes the use of advanced instruments and analytical methods.

Organization and Health Management
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability of master students to apply the basic principles and models of organization and management in healthcare, to carry out effective managerial activities in the field of healthcare, to distinguish between organizations and management of public and private medical activities. The discipline considers the control and functioning of health authorities, separation of functions in the field of healthcare, PPP in healthcare, modern information technologies in healthcare, theory and management systems, QMS in healthcare.

Patient safety management
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline focuses on the study of strategies, methods and tools used to ensure the safety and quality of patient care in various healthcare settings. She focuses on preventing medical errors, reducing the risk of adverse events and improving safety standards in medical practice.

Protection of public health
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline focuses on the study of strategies, methods and tools used to promote the health and well-being of the population as a whole. This area of ​​research covers various aspects of public health, including disease prevention, promotion of healthy lifestyles, environmental protection, crisis management, and policy development to improve public health.

Data for 2021-2024 years

INTERNSHIPS

Pedagogical
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - Formation of practical, educational-methodical skills of conducting lectures, seminars, creatively apply scientific, theoretical knowledge, practical skills in teaching activities, conduct training sessions in the disciplines of the specialty; own modern professional techniques, methods of training, use in practice the latest theoretical, methodological advances, make educational, methodological documentation.

Research
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - The purpose of the practice: gaining experience in the study of an actual scientific problem, expand the professional knowledge gained in the learning process, and developing practical skills for conducting independent scientific work. The practice is aimed at developing the skills of research, analysis and application of economic knowledge.

Data for 2021-2024 years