Master

Health Education and Promotion

You like working with people – children, elderly, employees, patients – but you aren’t sure how to best address their specific health problems? Would you like to help make environments and organisations conducive to healthy living? Are you interested in why people smoke, drink or overeat – and in helping to change these behaviours? Then Health Education and Promotion could be just the programme for you. The programme revolves around developing, evaluating, implementing and promoting health interventions. After you’ve completed the programme you'll be an expert in promoting health and well-being. You could pursue a career at health institutes, consultancies, insurance companies, governments and academia. Download our full infopack

Fast facts

focus on systematic and planned approach to health promotion
intervention development, implementation and evaluation
1-year, full-time master’s or 2-year, part-time, taught in English
starts in September
full-time: 12-14 hrs classes, 22-24 hrs group work/individual study
part-time: 6-7 hrs classes, 11-13 hrs group work/individual study
you’ll get an MSc in Health Education and Promotion

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Health Education and Promotion is 1st in its category in the national Keuzegids ranking 2017

Keuzegids Masters 2017

Health Education and Promotion programme has high-quality teaching

Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO)

UM is the 6th best young university in the world

Times Higher Education '200 Under 50' 2017

I would like to work in a health promoting company, in projects related to a variety of health issues, serving local communities and youth in particular

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Emmanuelle Blanchet (Canada), Health Education and Promotion
My aim is to advance sexual health education and help reduce teenage pregnancies

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Remy Scott-Flynn (Scotland), Health Education and Promotion
Studying in Maastricht has given me great insight into how it is to grow up and live in Europe

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Stephen Mah, Health Education and Promotion

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