Principled investigations to monitor and thus improve the health of individuals are firmly based on a sound understanding of modern quantitative methods. This in...
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Principles of Public Health introduces the major concepts and principles of public health and the determinants of health status in communities. Emphasizes the ec...
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Illustrates the principles of public health applied to depressive disorder, including principles of epidemiology, transcultural psychiatry, health services resea...
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Abortion is a common experience for women around the world; yet, abortion is often excluded from the curricula of health profe...
This course explores public health—both locally and globally—through the lens of epidemiology. Often called “the cornerstone” of public health, epidemiology is t...
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This course covers chemicals in our environment and in our bodies and how they impact our health. It addresses policies and pr...
This course examines increasingly critical water-related issues through a distinctly global and interdisciplinary lens. Participants will explore the multi-facet...
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Using the work of scientists, anthropologists, and scholars of the medical humanities, we explore new ways of thinking about global health and culture as global ...
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This course explores why primary health care is central for achieving Health for All. It provides examples of how primary health care has been instrumental in ap...
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A non-technical introduction to the contemporary application of computing to healthcare delivery, public health and community-...
This course focuses on cost-effective health care solutions using ever-expanding mobile technologies. The addressed themes are: 1) Global Health Challenges. 2) M...
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The New Nordic Diet is a new food culture which emphasizes gAstrnomy, health, and environment. This course presents the scient...
This course will explore the many problems of the American health care system and discuss the specific ways that the Affordabl...
Learn about how social factors that promote mental health can influence the onset and course of mental illness, and how mental illnesses are diagnosed and treate...
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Learn about the wide range of contraceptive methods, and the public health implications related to access to information and choices about reproductive health.
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During this course, students will gain an understanding of the Disaster Cycle, concentrating on the Mitigation Phase. They wil...
Think that a prescription medication must be safer than a “street drug”? Think again. Investigate the epidemic rise of prescription drug abuse and use science to...
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This course will explore the complex challenges of allocating scare medical resources at both the micro and macro level. Students will learn the theories behind ...
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Malaria, HIV/AIDS, Influenza, Measles - we're in a constant battle against infectious diseases. This is a course about the dyn...
How have advances in genetics affected society? What do we need to know to make ethical decisions about genetic technologies? ...
Social epidemiology is about how a society makes people sick and/or healthy. We address not only the identification of new disease risk factors (e.g., deficient ...
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This course examines the implications of informatics for practice, in nursing, public health, and healthcare in general. It co...
Learn the basics of child nutrition and how to make healthy meals for healthy children and families.
Considering a career in nursing? This subject will introduce you to the role of nurses in Australian healthcare.
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In the United States, two-thirds of the population read at an eight-grade level or below. When it comes to health information, most Americans have the ability to...
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The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the major social variables that affect population health.
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A non-technical introduction to the contemporary application of computing to healthcare delivery, public health and community-...
An introduction to key challenges and concepts important to understanding the current status and determinants of global health.
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This MOOC is aimed at anyone wishing to understand the basics of population health. Our aim is to prompt any participant to reconsider the decisions they make ab...
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Global Health is a new field within public health sciences that integrates the knowledge from fields such as epidemiology, med...
Participants will learn the elements of research methods and design that are essential to the translation of knowledge into clinical practice, administration/lea...
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Learn the essentials of U.S. health care policy from some of the nation's top experts.
Access to healthcare services is critical – but is it enough?
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This course explores global environmental changes, examining their causes as well as their health consequences, and engages st...
Isn't it time to end the loss of life from preventable medical errors? Each year 100,000 patients die from preventable errors in the U.S. How can you help to ch...
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This course will explore the Affordable Care Act in depth and then turn towards future health reform efforts and the future of...
This course will explain the structure of the American health care system and explore the many problems of this complicated sy...
In this course, we explore what it means to be a leader in the context of healthcare. How is it different to leadership in other industries? What are the partic...
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This course will provide you with an overview of the most important health challenges facing the world today. You will gain insight into how challenges have chan...
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Learn how Patient Reported Outcome Measures and Quality Adjusted Life Years can compare treatments and inform healthcare spend...
ALISON's free online Diploma in Health Studies course will give you a comprehensive understanding and knowledge of important h...
This course will explore the dynamic factors affecting the health and wellbeing of young people around the world, and how important it is for individuals, commun...
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This course proposes an overview of current global health challenges drawing on the insights of several academic disciplines including medicine, public health, l...
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This course focuses on Fundamentals of water and its relationship to human health. You will explore the multi-faceted ways in ...
Whether you’re considering a global health learning experience such as a clinical rotation, a research project, or volunteer work, or are preparing to work abroa...
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This water sustainability course (PH242x) from Tufts University focuses on the engineering and public health components needed...
Reimagine global health problems with some of the leading global health thinkers and actors through a case-based biosocial framework.
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Introduction to Behavioral Imaging, a new research field which encompasses the measurement, modeling, analysis, and visualization of behaviors from multi-modal s...
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Questions related to sexuality and reproduction are intimately linked to health, well-being and human rights. In this course, ...
This course will discuss HIV/AIDS in the US and around the world including its history, science, and culture as well as recent...
The world is ageing-people are older and societies are facing hard realities. What are we to make our lives in this time of g...
Ageing
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Learn about the ethical issues that arise when conducting human subjects research, as well as the history that grounds policie...
This course presents the concepts and processes of quality improvement (QI) and the importance of QI in improving patient outcomes. Its aim is to enhance the co...
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This course will discuss the global health implications of pregnancy and childbirth in the developing world, where millions of...
Introduction to Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI) that covers: 1) Informatics needs driven by Big Data generated from cu...
As the baby boomer generation ages, the impacts of alcohol and drug use among this generation will become an increasingly impo...
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Learn the basic principles for design of randomized clinical trials and how they should be reported.
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Public Health focuses on the health of entire populations, fighting disease on a massive scale.
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Knowledge linking genomics to health and disease is rapidly expanding. Translation of this knowledge into clinical and public...
Interprofessional collaborative practice is key to safe, high quality, accessible, patient-centered care. This course aims to introduce health professions learne...
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This is a survey course on the principles of Clinical Toxicology. The emphasis will be pre-hospital and emergency hospital man...
This online course introduces the history and practice of drug policy. Students will learn about drug laws and their origins, ...
In this course, you will learn about the structure, accomplishments, and shortcomings of the US healthcare system, and how those have prompted attempts at reform...
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Chronic pain is at epidemic levels and has become the highest-cost condition in health care. This course uses both creative and experiential learning to better u...
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KIeHealthX will introduce students to the field of eHealth and its opportunities and challenges. During the course you will get to know the different concepts th...
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Exercise is promoted as a fundamental component of a healthy lifestyle. Ever wonder why? Exercise is more than just an “art of...
Nutrition and health is a matter of concern to many people. Most often, we ask what kind of food is healthy or what we should ...
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How do addictions develop? How are they best treated and prevented? Explore these key questions with this free online course.
Explore why people fall, discover practical methods to reduce the risk of falling and recognise when to seek expert help.
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Obesity is a global epidemic. As the world gets fatter, explore its impact on our health and lives, with this free online cour...
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Take a journey from the past to the future of nursing with this free online course. Explore nursing’s impact on quality of life.
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Understand global blindness and how to plan effective eye care with this free online course for health professionals
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Learn about Ebola, its symptoms, where it came from and what the current outbreak has taught us, with this free online course....
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How has the Ebola outbreak become a humanitarian emergency? Learn about the science behind the crisis.
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Nudge-it is an multi-disciplinary European research project studying new ways of establishing and reinforcing healthy eating h...
This course provides students an understanding of important human parasitic diseases, including their life cycles, vectors of transmission, distribution and epid...
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This course introduces participants from the health care sector to gender based violence (GBV), including global epidemiology of GBV, health outcomes, seminal re...
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Learn to assess data from clinical trials by performing systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
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This course is intended as a self-study course for those interested in exploring a career as a Home Health Aide or Personal Ca...
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Population ageing is occurring in nearly every country around the word. This MOOC takes a multidisciplinary approach to explor...
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