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Environmental Health SC
Human exposure assessment: An Introduction
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◄ Discussion Question: Briefly describe some of the challenges to conducting an exposure assessment that you have learned in this module
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Chapter 1: Introduction: The environment at risk
Converging paradigms for environmental health theory and practice
Highs and lows of environmental health
10 facts on preventing disease through healthy environments
The impact of the environment on health by country: a meta-synthesis
Linkages between environmental and occupational health
The Bhopal disaster and its aftermath: a review
Discussion Question: How would you describe the linkages between occupational health and environmental health ?
Impact on human health
Health effects of chemical exposure
Knowns and unknowns on burden of disease due to chemicals: A systematic review
Cancer-Causing Substances in the Environment
Chapter Four: Quantifying selected major risks to health: Selected Occupational risks
Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Synthesis
Discussion Question: What does ecosystem change have to do with human health and well-being?
Quiz: Module 2: Lesson 1
Discussion Question: Name and briefly describe at least two health outcomes related to environmental hazards
Summary
Trade Secrets: A Toxic Journey
Coal minefires and human health: What do we know?
Human exposure assessment: An introduction
Biomonitoring and biomarkers: Exposure assessment will never be the same
Discussion Question: How would you describe the importance of biomarkers to someone with little or no science background?
Quiz: Module 3: Lesson 1
Discussion Question: Briefly describe some of the challenges to conducting an exposure assessment that you have learned in this module
ToxTutor: Section 1: Introduction
ToxTutor: Section 2: Dose and Dose Response
Mechanisms of Toxicity
A clash of old and new scientific concepts in toxicity, with important implications for public health
Environmental Health Risk Assessment: Guidelines for assessing human health risks from environmental hazards
Environmental Epidemiology: Challenges and Opportunities
Toxic Substances Portal
Peer Review Activity 1: Describe the role of toxicology in environmental and occupational health
Quiz: Module 4: Lesson 1
Discussion Question: How would you explain this basic principle of toxicology to someone with no background in science?
Discussion Question: How is environmental epidemiology similar to and different from epidemiology in other areas of public health?
Discussion Question: What is the ecological fallacy and why is it important to understand this concept in environmental epidemiolgy?
The eco- in eco-epidemiology
Glossary of Terms
Hazard and risk
Human Health Risk Assessment
Human exposure assessment: An introduction
WHO human health risk assessment toolkit: Chemical hazards
Peer Review Activity 2: Letter to the editor
Quiz: Module 5: Lesson 1
Ecological Risk Assessment
Environmental Health Risk Assessment: Guidelines for assessing human health risks from environmental hazards
Environmental health sciences decision making: Risk management, evidence, and ethics: Workshop summary
The Habitable Planet: A Systems Approach to Environmental Science
The precautionary principle: Protecting public health, the environment and the future of our children
WHO Air quality guidelines for particulate matter, ozone, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide
Environment fact sheet: REACH — a new chemicals policy for the EU
Hazard Control
A Practical Guide to Public Risk Communication: The five essentials of good practice
Quiz: Module 6: Lesson 1
Discussion Question: Describe the precautionary principle and why it plays an important role in protecting public health.
Discussion Question: Describe the factors that make certain sub-populatinos more susceptible to exposure and the health impacts of exposure?
Discussion Question: What does 'epigenetics' mean ? Why is it important to understand as a public health professional?
Ecosystems and human well-being: Health synthesis
Chapter 43: Air and water pollution: Burden and strategies for control
Guidelines for drinking-water quality: Introduction
Communication about environmental health risks: A systematic review
Children are not little adults
Inheriting the world: The atlas of children's health and the environment
DrugFacts: Genetics and epigenetics of addiction
Epigenetics and the burden of noncommunicable disease: a paucity of research in Africa
Epigenetics: The science of change
Social and gender inequalities in environment and health
Quiz: Module 7
Children's environmental health -Training modules and instructions for health care providers
Issues in health, environment and sustainable development: An overview
Peer Review Activity 3: Create quiz questions (optional)
Climate Change 101: climate science basics
Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: History of atmospheric carbon dioxide from 800,000 years ago until January, 2016
Human health impacts of climate change for New Zealand: Evidence summary
Protecting health from climate change: Connecting science, policy and people
Healthy places: Exploring the evidence
Healthy Community Design Streaming Video
Studying Health Outcomes in Farmworker Populations Exposed to Pesticides
WHO Human health risk assessment toolkit: Chemical hazards
Peer Review Activity 4: Environmental health case study
Quiz: Module 8
Discussion Question: In 100 words or less, describe your ideal healthy community.
Discussion Question: What are the health impacts of pesticides in occupational settings in your region or country?
Discussion Question: In your opinion, what is the most important environmental health issues at the global scale?
The nine planetary boundaries
Changing planet: Infectious diseases
Atlas of health and climate
Tools for thoughtful action: The role of ecosystem approaches to health in enhancing public health
Ecological public health
The ecosystem approach to health is a promising strategy in international development: lessons from Japan and Laos
The Ecology of Environmental Health
Reshaping the food system for ecological public health
Non-randomized controlled trial of the long-term efficacy of an Ecohealth intervention against Chagas disease in Yucatan, Mexico
Peer Review Activity 5: Apply the ecohealth and ecological public health perspectives to environmental and public health issues
Quiz: Module 9
Discussion Question: How is ecohealth different from other approaches to human health research?
Discussion Question: What do you think about Lang and Rayners proposition that ecological public health is the 21st centurys big idea?
Optional Peer Activity: Interview an Environmental Health Professional
Peer Activities
Course Redesign
ToxTutor: Section 1: Introduction ►
Environmental Health
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Module 1: Introduction to environmental health
Module 1: Lesson 1: Required Readings, Activities and Additional Learning Options
Module 2: Environmental hazards and their effects on human health and ecosystems
Module 2: Lesson 1: Required Readings, Activities and Additional Learning Options
Module 3: Principles of exposure assessment
Module 3: Lesson 1: Required Readings, Activities and Additional Learning Options
Module 4: Toxicology and epidemiology in environmental health
Module 4: Lesson 1: Required Readings, Activities and Additional Learning Options
Module 5: Risk assessment: Concepts and application
Module 5: Lesson 1: Required Readings, Activities and Additional Learning Options
Module 6: Risk management, communication, and regulation to protect human health and ecosystems
Module 6: Lesson 1: Required Readings, Activities and Additional Learning Options
Module 7: Susceptibility, vulnerability and inequality in environmental health
Module 7: Lesson 1: Required Readings, Activities and Additional Learning Options
Module 8: Case studies in environmental and occupational health
Module 8: Lesson 1: Required Readings, Activities and Additional Learning Options
Module 9: Emerging Perspectives for Environmental Health
Module 9: Lesson 1: Required Readings, Activities and Additional Learning Options
Final Exam
Course and Self Evaluation & Certificate
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