Illness

In this introduction course on Health and Health Behaviour you will learn about the fundamentals of health psychology. What role does our behaviour, our cognitions and emotions, and our environment play in our health status?

This course aims to serve as an education platform on Chinese medicine (CM) for the general public. Our primary goal is to empower healthcare choices by promoting awareness and practical application on CM diagnostic and therapeutic approaches, as well as regulation on CM services and herbal products using international [...]

Learn how social factors promote mental health, influence the onset and course of mental illness, and affect how mental illnesses are diagnosed and treated. This course explores how our understanding of mental health and illness has been influenced by social attitudes and social developments in North America and around [...]

Essentials of Global Health is a comprehensive introduction to global health. It is meant to introduce you to this topic in well-structured, clear and easy to understand ways. Much of the course will focus on five questions: What do people get sick, disabled and die from; Why do they [...]

Learn about the importance of psychology in healthcare, how it can improve policymaking and patient outcomes. Discover why psychology in healthcare matters to both caregivers and patients. Psychology plays a vital role in healthcare services. From a patient learning to cope with a medical condition to a doctor delivering [...]

Learn to recognise & treat the commonest medical & minor trauma conditions affecting children with this short, free online course. This free, three-week online course will show you how to recognise and treat some of the commonest medical conditions that affect children.