Healthcare and Health Science (Q96)

Course description

This degree will provide you with some of the essential skills required for working in health and health science settings, providing you with the ability to apply evidence-based scientific methodology to health-related issues. The combination of healthcare and health science topics will equip you with a broad understanding of the range of debates about the provision of healthcare, as well as enabling you to evaluate the relationship between scientific and social understandings about the promotion of health.

**Key features of the course**
- Develop skills in interpreting, generating, and presenting information using a variety of sources

- Learn about the ethical, social, scientific, economic and political issues that influence health and healthcare

- Engage with an evidence-based, scientific approach to health sciences and gain an appreciation of the limits of scientific knowledge

- Critically evaluate approaches to service provision and develop strategies for improving practice

Subjects

• Health care
• Health science