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Major Depression in the Population

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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Rating 4.7 based on 59 ratings
Length 7 weeks
Effort 6 weeks of study, 2 hours per week
Starts Jul 10 (41 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From Johns Hopkins University via Coursera
Instructors William Eaton, PhD, Wietse A. Tol, PhD, Ramin Mojtabai, MD
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Language English
Subjects Social Sciences Science
Tags Social Sciences Life Sciences Medicine And Healthcare Psychology Public Health

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Very useful information for anyone professional or not, to understand mental health and care, and support the silent sufferers anywhere in the world.

I enjoy learning about this global view of mental health.

It shines a light on how important addressing mental health issues is in our society.

An important course for those who work in the field of Mental health.

organised and workable course for mental health professionals and junior research fellows thank you coursera for this Awesome!

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This course encouraged me to think critically about mental health, specifically major depression from a public health perspective.

Also, I think the lectures are from 2013 so I am wondering if this course is being updated and covering the most current research in public health?

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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.

The course was also very interesting, especially for people who want to work in the field of public health.

Whether you are interested in public health or not, I encourage you to take this course because we can all benefit from a better understanding of mental illness, and depressive disorders in particular.

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With kind regards, Khassanova Mariyam I really enjoyed this class, and found it helpful to consider depression from some unique perspectives, none of which I'd given a lot of previous thought to.

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Being from Montana I feel that everyone should learn about depression, how to combat it and how to recognize it.

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I learned a lot about depression as well as about epidemiology.

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该课程对于抑郁的刨析出乎我的意料,对于抑郁的前前后后各个方面的探究几乎无微不至。具备极高的专业素养以及人文关怀。上这个课程我感到十分荣幸。I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to the professors and staff who offered the course.

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Rating 4.7 based on 59 ratings
Length 7 weeks
Effort 6 weeks of study, 2 hours per week
Starts Jul 10 (41 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From Johns Hopkins University via Coursera
Instructors William Eaton, PhD, Wietse A. Tol, PhD, Ramin Mojtabai, MD
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Social Sciences Science
Tags Social Sciences Life Sciences Medicine And Healthcare Psychology Public Health

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