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Primary training objectives

This Master’s programme is at a level 3 of the MECES and is designed for students seeking advanced training in a specialised or multidisciplinary field, with the object of either pursuing academic or professional specialisation, or initiating their involvement in research tasks. The programme has the following training objects:

  1. Broaden health knowledge from a biophyschosocial perspective
  2. Become familiar with the population’s health indicators of the different autonomous regions
  3. Address epidemiology and the the concepts linked to the discipline
  4. Broaden knowledge of Public Health policies and the models of the different autonomous regions
  5. Learn about management and quality systems in social work and the health sector
  6. Broaden knowledge of the structure and functioning of the health system
  7. Deepen understanding of the principles that frame the ethics of social intervention in a healthcare environment, as well as the notions of bioethics and deontology, dignity, autonomy and informed consent
  8. Broaden knowledge of community health, citizen participation and health prevention
  9. Deepen understanding of the historical framework of social work in the health field and its object of knowledge and intervention
  10. Broaden knowledge of the different areas in which social work in the health sector operates, as well as the different professional functions
  11. Deepen understanding of the different population groups targeted by social work in the field of health care
  12. Consolidate knowledge of the different methods, models and techniques of social work applied to the health field
  13. Broaden knowledge of the different diagnostic methods in social work and their application to the health field
  14. Deepen understanding of working with inter- or multidisciplinary teams
  15. Broaden knowledge of the methods of research in social work applied to the health field
  16. Encourage the development of research activity as a tool for knowledge and development of social work in the health field that allows access to doctoral studies