KJ
Reviewed Oct 20, 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.
Major Depression in the Population: A Public Health Approach
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.
Status: Social Determinants Of Health
Status: Public Health
BeginnerCourse14 hours
Featured reviews
RM
Reviewed Nov 15, 2021
It was an extremely eye-opening corse. The professors explained everything really well. I highly recommend this course.
CV
Reviewed Jan 11, 2020
Excellent Information, even for professionals in the field of Mental Health! Highly Recommended.
HV
Reviewed Jun 6, 2020
Thanks for giving this opportunity to learn this course.
SD
Reviewed Jul 12, 2020
Very well designed course that covers all the aspects of depression. However, as the data is based on studies from early 2000s, I would request the team to update the data from recent publications.
KB
Reviewed Jan 16, 2022
This course was both informative and interesting. It was a challenge, which required a lot of thinking and processing. I learned a lot. The essays were challenging also.
MA
Reviewed May 24, 2020
An important course for those who work in the field of Mental health.
TA
Reviewed May 12, 2022
The lectures were easy to understand and very informative.
DP
Reviewed 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.
MS
Reviewed Jul 23, 2018
This course has helped me a lot. I really hope to publish a paper on Maternal mental health someday.
DM
Reviewed Apr 19, 2020
organised and workable course for mental health professionals and junior research fellows thank you coursera for this
DH
Reviewed Apr 28, 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.