Healthcare with Health Science (T28)

Understanding health involves examining both scientific knowledge and healthcare practices. This certificate is relevant to employment in healthcare and health science. You’ll examine what it’s like to receive care, work in care services, and investigate particular health conditions. Drawing on science, maths, psychology and epidemiology, you’ll explore the causes and patterns of ill health and disability, and how they affect individuals and populations. By the end of the course, you’ll have developed a range of employability and study skills and an understanding of many significant health issues.

Key features of the course

• Develops the skills required for working in health science

• Enhances understanding of how evidence-based scientific methodology applies to health-related issues

• Introduces the skills required to become a reflective practitioner in a range of health-related settings

• Learn to interpret, generate, and present information and data using a unique range of sources

Course Modules

This healthcare and health science certificate has one stage, comprising 120 credits.

You’ll study two 60-credit modules that explore the experience of receiving care and working in care services while examining human health through science, maths, psychology and epidemiology to understand the impact of health conditions on individuals and populations.