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minor Global Health and Quantified Self

The minor Global Health & Quantified Self concerns aspects of globalization and health, linked to digital health and self tracking.career.

This short programme, with a view to the future, helps you to gain knowledge on prevention and selfmanagement in health, useful topics in your later career. It is organised in close cooperation with the Quantified Self Institute (www.qsinstitute.org/) and the first educational programme worldwide that incooperates Quantified Self in education at a bachelor level.

The minor Global Health & Quantified Self (30 ECTS) is an international (exchange) education program that offers you the unique opportunity to familiarize yourself with the increasingly globalized world, digitalisation and its effects on health. The minor focuses on trends in digital health (care) viewed from a global perspective and the challenges that we, as health professionals, face over the next 10 years. How do these developments relate to the desire to live longer while staying healthy and active while we age? How can we cooperate on an international level to organize prevention and self-management? How do we implement digital health solutions to encourage healthy behaviour and structure in health care in such a way that everybody receives the care he or she needs?

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