PGDip (Public Health) (UPOnline)
Programme Code: 10221019
SAQA ID: 111181
NQF level: 08
The Faculty of Health Sciences continues to exemplify and build on the University of Pretoria’s vision of being a leading research-intensive university in Africa: it is recognised internationally for its quality, relevance and impact, as well as for creating knowledge, developing people and making a difference locally and globally.
The Faculty is home to 5 500 undergraduate and 1 500 postgraduate students, including medical and dental fellowship training in more than 40 disciplines.
The Faculty’s research output has grown, in response to the need for research that is relevant to the improvement of health and health care and advancing medicine in South Africa, Africa and globally.
The curriculum for the PGDip (Public Health) will comprise of compulsory core modules and a research component. All modules will be offered online.
Information on UPOnline:
2 years, full-time
Application and closing dates:
Computer literacy
The University of Pretoria makes use of Blackboard, branded as clickUP, which is an online system that provides a workspace for students, providing students with the information and the connections needed. ClickUP contains study material as well as a simple, convenient, and reliable web conferencing and virtual classroom solutions specifically built for education and training. ClickUP is accessible via a web browser mobile device, or tablet and has a useful student guide.
Students are required to have some technical and digital literacy skills such as the ability to:
A diploma is awarded with distinction to a student who has obtained a mark of at least 75% for the externally moderated assessment components as well as a simple (unweighted) average of at least 75% of all the marks for the other required modules for the relevant diploma; excluding PHM 710 Learning in public health 710.
Minimum credits: 120
A formal protocol for study that is feasible and suitable for submission to the ethics and postgraduate committees for an MPH mini-dissertation project.
Prerequisites | CDC 710, EHM 710, SCM 710, HCM 710, HME 710, PHM 710, HME 711 and HME 712 |
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Period of presentation | UPOnline Long Intake |
Students will be presented with an overview of health and disease followed by a set of tools for disease prevention and control. They will especially be encouraged to reflect on the importance of epidemiology and surveillance systems (for disease as well as health and for risk factors). They will be tasked with the application of these tools to the prevention and control of a number of important (for South Africa) health threats, both infectious and non-infectious. The scope will be all disease conditions including psychiatric, trauma, violence, etc in addition to the conventional inclusion of infectious diseases and diseases of lifestyle. There will be a link, too, to the concept of “implications for policy”.
Prerequisites | PHM 710 |
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Period of presentation | UPOnline Short Intake |
The principles of environmental health. The mechanisms behind the relationship between environmental exposures and the development of disease states. Environmental measures to prevent and control disease, both infectious and non-infectious diseases.
Prerequisites | PHM 710 |
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Period of presentation | UPOnline Short Intake |
The module provides introductory learning in Health Policy and Management, in a manner suitable for new managers or those who have not had formal management training, sufficient for you to undertake basic management tasks. Whatever field of public health a graduate enters they are likely to have to undertake some management responsibilities. This module aims to provide all graduates with the foundation of knowledge, skills, attitudes and values in health policy and management that they will need.
Prerequisites | PHM 710 |
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Period of presentation | UPOnline Short Intake |
This module introduces the student to the history, philosophy, aims and types of research. The role of theory, specific approaches, designs and methods employed in research are explained. The module includes background to research, choosing a topic, selecting methods and prepares the student for the process of writing a protocol.
Prerequisites | PHM 710 |
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Period of presentation | UPOnline Short Intake |
This module introduces students to thinking “epidemiologically” and the principles of epidemiology including applied epidemiology. The module introduces software for questionnaire design and data collection. Basic principles such as rates ratios and proportions are explained. Key study designs used in epidemiology include cross-sectional, cohort, case-control, ecological, randomised control trials and sub-groups are introduced. This module introduces students to the development and application of statistical reasoning and methods addressing, analysing, and solving problems in public health-, health care-, and biomedical, clinical-, and population-based research.
Prerequisites | PHM 710 |
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Period of presentation | UPOnline Short Intake |
This module introduces students to the application of epidemiology and the statistical procedures and analysis of the most commonly used statistical tests in the field of biostatistics.
Prerequisites | HME 711 and PHM 710 |
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Period of presentation | UPOnline Short Intake |
The history and scope of public health. The importance of self-motivated deep learning as opposed to passive learning. Learning the value of group work. The use of the internet and the library to research areas of study. The writing of literature reviews and assignments. The avoidance of plagiarism. Improving English writing skills. Elements of human rights and public health ethics. Students will be given assignments involving a short literature search and applied writing practice. They will also learn how to use the internet and its information with discretion, and also how to use the UP on-line learning platforms.
Prerequisites | No prerequisites. |
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Period of presentation | UPOnline Short Intake |
A range of factors that influence health from a social, environmental and economic basis; analysis of the determinants of health problems and related behaviours, their effect on the individual, community and the broader society. Health promotion approaches, strategies and actions to address social determinants. Planning, implementation and evaluation of public health interventions to address social determinants of health.
Prerequisites | PHM 710 |
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Period of presentation | UPOnline Short Intake |
Annual Increase and Payment Information:
Code | Module | Duration | Credits | Cost |
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Core modules | ||||
AHM 710 | PGDPH Research protocol 710 | 16 weeks fully online | 30.00 | R5,452.00 |
CDC 710 | Principles of disease prevention and control 710 | 8 weeks fully online | 10.00 | R5,452.00 |
EHM 710 | Introduction to environmental health 710 | 8 weeks fully online | 10.00 | R5,452.00 |
HCM 710 | Principles of health policy and management 710 | 8 weeks fully online | 10.00 | R5,452.00 |
HME 710 | Introduction to research methodology 710 | 8 weeks fully online | 10.00 | R5,452.00 |
HME 711 | Epidemiology and Biostatistics I 711 | 8 weeks fully online | 15.00 | R5,452.00 |
HME 712 | Epidemiology and Biostatistics II 712 | 8 weeks fully online | 15.00 | R5,452.00 |
PHM 710 | Learning in public health 710 | 8 weeks fully online | 10.00 | R5,452.00 |
SCM 710 | Social determinants of health 710 | 8 weeks fully online | 10.00 | R5,452.00 |
Totals | 120.00 | R49,068.00 |
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