Transdisciplinarity of India's master's level public health programmes: evidence from admission criteria of the programmes offered since 1995.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

In the Indian subcontinent, Master's-level Public Health (MlPH) programmes attract graduates of diverse academic disciplines from health and non-health sciences alike. Considering the current and futuristic importance of the public health cadre, we described them and reviewed their transdisciplinarity status based on MlPH admissibility criteria 1995 to 2021.

Methods

Using a search strategy, we abstracted information available in the public domain on MlPH programmes and their admissibility criteria. We categorized the admission criteria based on specified disciplines into Health science, Non-health science and Non-health non-science categories. We described the MlPH programmes by location, type of institution, course duration, curriculum, pedagogical methods, spe

SUBMITTER: Ilangovan K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8809628 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature