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2023-2026 Academic Catalog

DPH 7113 - Mental Health Epidemiology

This course, designed for students who are already familiar with basic epidemiologic concepts and methods, is an overview of the epidemiology of mental illness. The course reviews descriptive and analytic epidemiology for major mental disorders of childhood, adulthood, and late adult life. It will also examine issues of classification and the nosology of psychiatric disorders as well as operational case definitions and the measurement techniques to enhance field surveys and risk factor research. A mayor emphasis of the course is on methods and problems of the epidemiologic study of mental illness, particularly as these differ from epidemiologic study of other types of illnesses.