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Master's degree in Participatory Health Research
The aim of this master's degree is to respond to the complexity of the current healthcare and to rethink the healthcare model, providing tools for integrated patient-centred care through the use of specific measures, evidence and results.
The program trains health professionals in participatory research applied to professional practice, based on integrated care models and focused on the different stages of the life cycle.
The master's degree provides:
- The foundations of participatory research for designing and implementing health care interventions.
- Models of integrated, person-centred care for proposing possible actions in professional practice.
- The method for correctly identifying the needs of the target population, taking into account and respecting their biopsychosocial conditions from an intersectional perspective.
- The tools to design and develop actions of lifelong person-centred integrated care in collaboration with different professionals.
- The knowledge and skills to carry out participatory research in the implementation of lifelong integrated patient-centred care models.
- Strategies for communicating and disseminating scientific results.
- Ethical principles that must be considered in the context of participatory research.
Place
Blended learning. Face-to-face sessions are held in Vic.
Language of instruction
Catalan and Spanish
Dates
From October to July
Doctoral studies
This master's degree grants access to doctoral studies in accordance with the regulations established by each university.
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Distinctive features
- Applied Participatory Research: a unique feature of the master's degree is the focus on participatory research applied to professional practice in the health field. Students acquire skills to carry out collaborative projects that involve the community and contribute to the development of more effective care models that focus on people's needs.
- Focus on integrated and person-centred care: the different subjects provide professionals with tools and knowledge to design and implement interventions that take into account the specific needs of each individual throughout their life.
- The key role of faculty teaching expertise: faculty with outstanding expertise in various biopsychosocial areas of health ensure that the content of the master's degree effectively incorporates ethical principles and an understanding of intersectionality in all aspects of the program, through innovative and participatory teaching methodologies.
- Active learning: blended learning allows students to combine face-to-face sessions with independent work. This combination encourages collaborative knowledge building and the sharing of ideas, which enriches the students' learning experience.