Course overview:

Learn to understand (un)healthy behaviour and how environments can influence health. This master’s equips you with the tools to change behaviour for better health. You’ll design, implement, and evaluate health interventions using Intervention Mapping.

This programme is for you if:
• you have a keen interest in understanding (un)healthy behaviours and how environments impact health;
• you are passionate about developing health-promoting interventions and policies;
• you want to make an impact and address complex societal challenges and the wicked problems we face in our current society.

What you will learn:

Our world is facing serious problems such as climate change and increasing poverty and inequality. Ensuring health and well-being is complex, which makes promoting them fundamental. The starting point to promote health is human behaviour and the environments in which that behaviour occurs. In this programme, we focus on understanding and changing behaviours that contribute to health and well-being. Health education enables people to increase control over and improve their health by, for example, developing skills and capabilities. Health promotion ensures that environments, communities, and policies are beneficial to health and well-being.

You are equipped with important tools for understanding human behaviour and leveraging a comprehensive planned and systematic approach to the development, implementation and evaluation of health-promoting interventions.

Who this course is for:

After you’ve completed the master’s programme in Health Education and Promotion, 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. Experience shows that all students rapidly find good jobs, sometimes even before graduation. This master’s programme is for consultants, government employees, prevention experts, researchers, health promotion officers.

Investering:

Maastricht University has a statutory and an institutional tuition fee. Which tuition fee you have to pay depends on your situation. Visit our website for more detailed information.