Causes of Human Disease: Understanding Causes of Disease

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Course overview

Provider
Futurelearn
Course type
Free trial availiable
Deadline
Flexible
Duration
2 hours
Course author
Tracey Farragher

Description

Learn the epidemiological methods used to understand the causes of diseases and how social factors influence their development.
Discover epidemiology: the study of diseases.

What causes human disease? Why do some people get a disease but others don’t? Through this course, you’ll learn how epidemiologists are helping to find answers to these complex questions and how the health of a population is measured and analysed. By looking at stimulating case studies, you’ll explore how the social determinants of health contribute to human disease and how health inequalities exist. You will then look at health inequalities across the globe and investigate how and why different socioeconomic factors determine human health.

Causes of Human Disease: Understanding Causes of Disease
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