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About the Course

Public Mental Health is the application of the principles of medicine and social science to prevent the occurrence of mental and behavioral disorders and to promote mental health of the population. This course illustrates the principles of public health applied to depressive disorder, including principles of epidemiology, transcultural psychiatry, health services research, and prevention. It is predicted that by 2020 depressive disorder will be the most important cause of disease burden in the entire world! Every human being suffers from feeling depressed at some point or other, but only about one fifth of the population will experience an episode of depressive disorder over the course of their lives. This course illuminates the public health approach to disease, and the particular complexities of applying this approach to mental disorders, using depression as the exemplar....

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DP

Nov 14, 2019

I very much enjoyed this course. you were able to present the idea of depression as a public health concern very well and I enjoyed the way the public health research methods were approached.

SR

Jun 24, 2020

Well designed course! It sheds light on the global burden of depression by bringing in historical and cultural aspects in such a simplified manner. Loved it!

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By Alankrita T

Feb 13, 2021

Great course about depression but in a different light that from the public health perspective. Interesting lectures with statistics & epidemiology. It was new for me to learn something else about depressive disorders. I liked the quizzes & the assignments. They were challenging.

By Daniel W

Jul 4, 2020

All in all a very good and informative course. I like the structure and the assignments require that you both apply what you learn and makes you think out the box.

Only point of critique is that the wording in the assignments could have been clearer.

By Dayle H

Apr 29, 2021

Liked it very much. The assignments were thought provoking. It is hard to get others to review your work, if you can work on improving that aspect it would help a lot.

By Job C

Jun 4, 2022

Professor gives me a great introduction to major depression disorder. However, the peer assignment and interaction between students are not as good as I expect.

By Kennith J J

Oct 21, 2020

This was a good course. Very informational, and thought-provoking. However, we should be able to print out our completion certificate free of charge as well.

By Miguel P S

Jun 14, 2020

Very good course. I learned a lot about depression as well as about epidemiology.

By Sakthipriya R

Feb 4, 2019

Course is great. Knowledgeable. Got more info about depression globally .

By 灯里Akari

Aug 28, 2018

A very detailed course. But may be a little primary for clinicians.

By José B d M F

Jul 6, 2020

Much epidemiological approach and many exercises!

By Sagnik B

Jun 24, 2021

It was pleasure learning

By Aman p

Aug 17, 2020

Educational

By Uroosa F

Sep 1, 2020

good