To enable the student to understand and develop studies in the field of Public Health, the program offers a wide range of disciplines, classified into three groups as detailed below:

FORMATIVE DISCIPLINES:

• RMS5736 – General Epidemiology
• RMS5737 – Epidemiological Methodology
• RMS5732 – Health Policies
• RMS5776 – Topics in Primary Health Care
• RMS5791 – Health and Sustainability

All students are recommended to take the following disciplines:

• RMS5732 – Health Policies
• RMS5734 – Quantitative Methods
• RMS5737 – Epidemiological Methodology

For students who will use qualitative methods in their research project, we also suggest taking the discipline RMS 5764 – Introduction to the Use of Qualitative Methods in Health Research.

GENERAL INSTRUMENTAL DISCIPLINES:

• RMS5773 – Categorical Data Analysis and Logistic Regression Models
• RMS5772 – Statistical Analysis in Health Studies Using the R Program
• RMS5792 – Psychometric Scales in the Field of Public Health: Selection, Validation, and Application
• RMS5793 – Interprofessional Education in the Context of the Training of Health Professionals
• RMS5788 – Gender, Health, and Violence
• RMS5764 – Introduction to the Use of Qualitative Methods in Health Research
• RMS5734 – Quantitative Methods
• RMS5782 – Health Quality Management Models
• RMS5754 – Data for Health Studies
• RMS5770 – Health Services Research
• RMS5795 – Health Promotion Practices and Lifestyle Medicine
• RMS5785 – Principles and Structure of Systematic Review
• RMS5789 – Academic Writing in Health Sciences
• RMS5790 – Scientific Meeting on Public Health
• RMS5777 – Health Information Systems
• RMS5784 – Sampling Techniques in Epidemiological Studies
• RMS5781 – Topics of Statistical Inference Applied to Medical Data
• RMS5755 – Topics in Survival Analysis
• RMS5752 – Topics in Applied Epidemiology
• RMS5780 – Topics in Health Assessment Methods and Approaches
• RMS5759 – Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Health Education

SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTAL DISCIPLINES:

• RMS5787 – Integrated Mental Care in Primary Care
• RMS5774 – Epidemiology and Control of Hospital Infections
• RMS5741 – Family and Health-Disease Process
• RMS5769 – Bayesian Methods in Health
• RMS5775 – Diet Assessment Methods in Epidemiological Studies
• RMS5768 – Occupational Disease Research: Detection and Prophylaxis
• RMS5783 – Population in Vulnerable Situation in the Primary Health Care Scenario