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
student ambassador: Daniella

Come and meet us! Visit our
Master's Open Day
at 17 November 2018!

I want to promote the overall knowledge about health

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Daniella Lock (Canada), Health Education and Promotion
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

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 fifth best young university in the world

Times Higher Education '250 Under 50'

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- Good news for our future alumni: highly educated job-seekers have better job prospects in Limburg than in the rest of the country!
  Good prospects for graduates and job-seekers in Limburg
  
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  11 hours 33 min ago
- An important topic in today's society. Although this is a Canadian article, students (worldwide) should keep these 10 tips in mind. #beHEPpy
  
  https://www.thestar.com/life/insidersguide/2018/09/24/mind-power-10-tips-for-student-mental-health.html
  Mind power: 10 tips for student mental health | The Star
  
  Daniella Lock, Health Education and Promotion Master's student via
  
  11 hours 43 min ago
- Breaking news😮. A study shows that telomerase therapy does not increase the risk of cancer.
  
  Gene therapy with telomerase is effective against diseases caused by excessive shortening of telomeres and aging.
  Telomerase has always been associated with cellular immortality, given that telomerase is believed to be one of the pillars that support tumor growth.
  The novelty is that they have now demonstrated through a 'killer experiment' (an experiment that creates the worst conditions for their hypothesis to be met) its efficacy and safety by applying this therapy to lung cells in mice that reproduced human lung cancer, therefore having a higher risk of developing this disease. The results were negative. This suggests that gene therapy with telomerase is safe even in a context of increased risk.
  The Spanish group that discovered it is part of the CNIO (National Center for Oncological Research) led by María Blasco.
  For more than 20 years, Blasco's work has focused on demonstrating the importance of telomeres and telomerase in cancer, as well as in age-related diseases.
  AAV9-mediated telomerase activation does not accelerate tumorigenesis in the context of oncogenic K-Ras-induced lung cancer
  
  Maastricht University Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences via
  
  3 days 16 hours ago

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