COMH 510 - Health Policy and Management

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This course exams health policy and management through public health methods including diagnostic identification of mental illness, the links between mental and physical health, and using tools and strategies from the public health field to understand current mental health policies, practices, and services. Students are introduced to basic principles of epidemiology used in public health studies, including how to investigate the origin and development of specific illnesses and the use of population-based research studies designed to test health-related hypotheses. This course draws from social epidemiology, showing students the correlations between social factors and mental and behavioral health outcomes.