Dear students welcome to this module taught by Dr. Hahirwa G. Joseph amd Mrs. Uwamahoro Marie Claire
This module will give students an understanding of the concepts and methods used in the study of population. It will cover the basics of demographic structure: mortality, fertility, nuptuality, and migration, as well as discuss the characteristics of demographic change in East and Central Africa, America, Europe and the rest of the world (both historical and current) and address questions of economic and social development connected to population.
The aims of this module include to define the basic concepts in health: public health, health, mental health, to describe a person who is in good mental health; to describe mental health policy (history, policy, strategies) in Rwanda, define the psychopathology, define concepts in relationship with psychopathology (psychology, pathology, mental disorder, mental illness, mental distress, stress, behavior, psychiatry) and explain the meaning of mental disorder or mental illness or mental disease.