HLSC 340 Population Mental Health
This course provides students with an in-depth understanding of how public health practitioners could make critically important contributions to decreasing the societal burden of emotional distress, mental illness, substance abuse, alcohol use, and suicide. Students will gain a basic understanding of psychopathology, current treatments, interventions, practices, and policies to improve worldwide mental health and achieve health equity. Stigma in mental illness and how disparities impact mental health outcomes will be discussed. Other topics will include biological, psychological, socioeconomic, structural, and sociocultural implications for mental health, and the creation and dissemination of policies that promote mental health and wellbeing through preventive interventions will be reviewed.