Public Mental Health: A Framework for Studying and Preventing Mental Disorders

This course provides a framework for studying and preventing mental disorders. Key concepts in public health and epidemiology will be applied to mental and behavioral health disorders including depressive, anxiety, and substance use disorders. Major topics of this course include: 1) classification systems for mental disorders, 2) public health surveillance of mental disorders, 3) the burden, epidemiology, and determinants of mental disorders, and 4) strategies for mental disorder treatment and prevention, with a focus on health policy.