Master's Degree in Health and Life Quality Research

Academic year 2023-24

  This study programme will not be continued; new students will not be admitted.

Further information on the phase-out process can be found in the Phase-out Process tab on this page.

You can also consult this information for the academic year 2022-23.

To be awarded the degree, 60 ECTS credits must be passed as follows:

18 ECTS from mandatory subjects.

30 ECTS from elective subjects.

If you wish to take a pathway:

Psychosocial

  • 22 ECTS from the specific pathway subjects
  • 8 ECTS from the common elective subjects

Public Health

  • 24 ECTS from the specific pathway subjects
  • 6 ECTS from the common elective subjects

If you do not wish to take any pathway, there is also the possibility of following a general non-specialised pathway that students can configure by freely selecting from all elective subjects available on the Master's programme.

12 ECTS from the Master's Thesis.

First year
Name Type Credits Period
11138 - Master's Thesis Master's Dissertation 12,0 Yearlong
11120 - Quantitative Healthcare Research Methods Mandatory 6,0 1st semester
11121 - Qualitative Healthcare Research Methods Mandatory 6,0 1st semester
11122 - Secondary Healthcare Research Mandatory 3,0 1st semester
11123 - New Technologies in Advanced Searches, Outreach and Knowledge-Transfer in Health Sciences Mandatory 3,0 1st semester
11137 - Global Healthcare and Education as a Means of Promoting Development Elective 3,0 1st semester
10555 - Health from a Gender Perspective: Consequences of Violence and Risk Situations Elective 5,0 2nd semester
11136 - Clinical placement based on the research results and effectiveness improvem Elective 3,0 2nd semester
11135 - Critical Healthcare Research: Practices, Policies and Citizenship Elective 3,0

 Psychosocial
  • Mallorca

Psychosocial
Name Credits Period
10911 - Mental Health and Prevention in Early Childhood 3,0
10557 - Training in Social and Communication Skills for Health Professionals 5,0 1st semester
11126 - Residential and Family Environments in Elderly Healthcare 3,0 2nd semester
10552 - Social Behaviour in Public Healthcare Organisations 5,0
11124 - Addressing the Impact of Hospitalization on Children, Adolescents and their Relatives 3,0
11125 - Health Professional Work Stress 3,0

 Public Health
  • Mallorca

Public Health
Name Credits Period
11132 - Assets in Healthcare and Healthy Environments 3,0 1st semester
11133 - New Technologies and Healthy Lifestyles 3,0 1st semester
11128 - Physical Exercise as a Preventive and Therapeutic Strategy in Metabolic diseases 3,0 2nd semester
11130 - Public Healthcare and the Urban Environment 3,0 2nd semester
11131 - Public Healthcare and Diet 3,0 2nd semester
11127 - Ergonomics and Health 3,0
11129 - Physical Exercise as a Method of Preventing and Treating Injuries of the Locomotor System 3,0
11134 - Biopsychosocial Interventions with Sufferers of Sensory-based Motor Disorde 3,0