5 Public Health Degree Programs in Chile

Contribute to the training and development of advanced human capital, in public health sciences, to optimize the health of the population from the field of the directive and professional management. Generate research, to provide interdisciplinary and intersectoral responses to the priority health problems of the population.

The Magister One Health - One Health, is based on this interdisciplinary approach that originates in the link and interconnection that exists between the human population, animal populations, and the environment where they live. This concept was conceived to design and implement programs, policies, laws, and research in which multiple sectors communicate effectively and collaborate, across cultures and educational backgrounds, to achieve better public health outcomes. This program addresses a wide range of topics under the One Health approach and provides a foundation in disease principles in the context of ecological, sociological systems, global health (human and animal), and food safety and security.

The Master's in Collective Health's mission is to train at the postgraduate level, professionals trained to creatively analyze health problems through a global perspective that considers the social and political context of the territory, from a scientific perspective; deepening the historical character of Chilean and Latin American health, which will allow a multidisciplinary approach to collective health, whose care model is built in a heterogeneous way from the territory where it is going to be implemented.

Formar especialistas en Salud Pública, en un contexto complejo y global, que contribuya a mejorar las condiciones biopsicosociales de la población nacional, regional y local, a través del diagnóstico, ejecución y evaluación de programas, mediante la intervención o investigación aplicada en salud, considerando un enfoque por competencia profesional, holístico e interdisciplinario.

With the aim of developing solid theoretical and practical bases for Research with a Qualitative, Holistic, and Transdisciplinary Approach, the University of Atacama is in the process of starting with the third version of the Master's Degree in Methodology from Salíster in Methodology of Investiges directives de Qualitativión different disciplines who want to take the postgraduate degree.