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Principles of Environmental Health
Location
Internet
Term
1st Term
Department
Environmental Health and Engineering
Credit(s)
4
Academic Year
2024 - 2025
Instruction Method
Synchronous Online
M, W, 1:30 - 3:20pm
Auditors Allowed
Yes, with instructor consent
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Resources
Prerequisite
Presents concepts, principles, and applications underlying the field of environmental health. Includes topics: contaminant sources, fate and transport, exposure and dose, study design in toxicology, climate change, environmental justice, and the built environment. Emphasizes policy, practice, and systems-based approaches. Focuses on discussions and exercises on reviewing current environmental health issues in the media, evaluating peer-reviewed literature on these issues, and deliberating on potential opportunities for prevention and intervention.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Describe the sources and range of hazards to human health that exist within the environment
- Explain behavioral and psychological factors that impact environmental health
- Explain the social, political, and economic determinants related to environmental and health inequities
- Explain how globalization affects global burden of disease, and equity in well-being, health outcomes, and access to care
- Evaluate studies of potentially-toxic exposures and adverse health effects, in both animals and humans
- Identify policies to mitigate, measure and prevent adverse health effects caused by environmental or occupational hazards
- Interpret articles from the current environmental health literature
- Identify current and emerging environmental problems that pose a risk to public health
- Identify the contribution that environmental health practice makes within public health
- Explain an ecological perspective on the connections among human health, animal health, and ecosystem health
Methods of Assessment
This course is evaluated as follows:
- 15% Active participation in discussions
- 30% Assignments
- 55% Exam(s)
Enrollment Restriction
Enrollment limited to degree-seeking students in SPH graduate programs.