Population Health: Syndemics

Universiteit Leiden via Coursera

Go to Course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/syndemics

Introduction

What syndemics is and how it was developed.

How qualitative research can be used to explore syndemics.

Syllabus

Welcome to Leiden University

Syndemic Theory

Welcome to Population Health: Syndemics!

Interaction in Syndemics

In this module you will learn about how to assess whether health conditions and social conditions cluster and interact in a person or a population.

Context in Syndemics

This module introduces you to qualitative research. Qualitative methods will help you study the social conditions that shape a syndemic.

Mixed methods

This is the last module of Syndemics. You will be introduced to how to combine quantitative, qualitative and mixed-method research when studying a syndemic.

Overview

Do you wish to contribute to breaking cycles of ill-health in disadvantaged populations? And explore co-occurrence of diseases, such as substance abuse, infectious and chronic disease, and the relation with social factors (disparities)? Are you disappointed in the poor effectiveness of interventions for combined social and medical problems? Then this syndemics course might provide you with some answers. In medicine, diseases are generally approached as distinct entities, in isolation from oth

Skills

Reviews

Informative, just the right pace and the right mix of lectures and tasks. I have learned very useful things for my practice.

This is a very good course for understanding qualitative and quantitative research. It's worth the time and effort.