About this 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.

Who is this class for: This course is aimed at mental health professionals, social workers, nurses, and researchers who want to understand the public health approach to major depression. It is NOT intended for people who are seeking help or treatment for their own symptoms of depression.

Created by: Johns Hopkins University

Taught by: William Eaton, PhD, Professor, Mental Health
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Taught by: Wietse A. Tol, PhD, Ali & Rose Kawi Assistant Professor, Mental Health
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Taught by: Ramin Mojtabai, MD, Associate Professor, Mental Health
Bloomberg School of Public Health

Level	Beginner
Commitment	6 weeks of study, 2 hours per week
Language	English
How To Pass	Pass all graded assignments to complete the course.
User Ratings	4.4 stars Average User Rating 4.4See what learners said

Syllabus

WEEK 1

Overview

Welcome to Major Depression in the Population: A Public Health Approach. Let's take a few moments to introduce the course before we dive into our first lessons.

1 video, 2 readings

What is Major Depression and Why Is It Important? The Burden of Depressive Disorder in the Population

This week, we will be focusing on the definition of major depression and the methods that we use for measuring its effect on populations.

5 videos

Graded: Quiz 1: The Basics of Major Depression

WEEK 2

Depression in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Closer Look at Maternal Depression

This week we will be covering depression from a global public health perspective.

4 videos

Graded: Quiz 2: Depression in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

WEEK 3

Basic Concepts of Epidemiology as Applied to Depression

This week we take advantage of what we know about major depressive disorder to examine major epidemiologic research designs, including the case control design, the cohort design, and the study of diseases in time and space.

5 videos

Graded: Quiz 3: Epidemiology

WEEK 4

The Search for Etiologic Clues

This week the focus is on possible causes for depressive disorder, including inheritance, stress, social life, work life, and the evolution of modern living.

5 videos

Graded: Quiz 4

Graded: Refugee Health Assignment

WEEK 5

Unmet Need for Care, Barriers, and Programs to Improve Access

In this module, we discuss unmet need for treatment and treatment seeking and present a public health view of depression treatment.

4 videos

Graded: Quiz 5

Graded: Quiz 6

WEEK 6

Final Assignment

Graded: Final Assignment: DepressionCare

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Rated 4.4 out of 5 of 30 ratings

很實用也很專業！！！

Johns Hopkins produces yet another amazing course - so well-organized and full of inspiring and enlightening info - thank you! I love how everything is meticulously cited and how the quizzes make sense relative to the content. The only suggestion I have would be make the visual aspect a bit more dynamic. Other than that, really another example of online course perfection.

Thank you very much for the course. It allows to understand the peculiarities of the clinical picture of depression, as well as risks. Most useful what is paid to the issue of reducing depression at the population level. Thank you very much. Aleksey Melehin (Moscow)

FUN COURSE WHICH I ENJOYED QUITE A BIT.

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