Causes of Human Disease: Understanding Causes of Disease

An eye-opening class and the experience -- valuable to shape the direction of future learning. A very good introduction to understanding the causes of human diseases through the lens of epidemiology and population-based studies.

It is part of the series and it is nice to do all the classes in this series.

This class gave me a deeper insight into public health research and also the subject of epidemiology. This class also covers how inequality in healthcare exists among people of different economic levels, and how social class is an important factor in determining which group of population will have a higher burden of disease, due to a lower level of access to health care. All these topics are of general interest to anyone, who wants to impact policies in healthcare in their country. In this class, many examples are from the UK, still, data are presented from many different countries. Overall, the class is very thoughtfully designed.

As a 20 year retired doctor , self isolating, this is the 3rd Future Learn course I have taken during lock down to try and keep my brain cells active! I found the course very interesting and learnt a lot about epidemiology, a subject which did not feature much, in my days as a medical student. I did, however, find the number of " over to you" sections featured much more frequently than in the other courses. I found these rather irritating and many seemed almost repetitive but perhaps that was because I did not fully understand what you were asking for. I am afraid I was not prepared to do as much research reading as they required nor was I any good at entering into discussions within the group but then I do not think any one was! I can understand that if I wanted to earn a Certificate or Academic Reward this would be necessary but for someone like me who was just interested in getting a taste of the subject it was rather too much. Although I could move on without completing the task I felt rather guilty doing so!