Minor in Health Studies - Climate Change and Human Health
SUST 4103 Climate Change and Human Health
CREDIT HOURS: 3
Climate change and the drivers of climate change threaten to undermine the last 50 years of gains in public health. Extreme weather events (heatwaves, floods, droughts), and pollution exacerbate chronic and infectious diseases, poverty and mental ill-health. Crucially, the response to climate change brings immense benefits for human health, with cleaner air, healthier diets, and more liveable cities. This course builds an understanding of the human health and equity impacts of climate change and its related environmental crises. Students examine how forced migration, infectious diseases, food insecurity, conflict, poverty, and mental anxiety are exacerbated by climate change. Students also explore concepts of “one health,” “ecohealth,” and “planetary health” and implications for action at an individual and societal level in relation to our shared natural, social and physical world.
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RESTRICTIONS: Restricted to students in fourth year (completion of at least 90 credit hours)