Environment, Health and Sustainability

In this course, students will learn about relationships between sustainability, the environment and human health. Foundational concepts in sustainability will be followed by an exploration of how a particular pressing issue – climate change including changing temperatures and precipitation, extreme weather events and resource scarcity - can affect environments, societies, and in turn, health care systems, and determine population health outcomes. Specifically, this course will equip students with a nuanced understanding of cross-cutting issues including environmental justice, political economies of health, diverse impacts of climate change on health across the life course, and how place and environment can affect human health and also be determined by sustained health behaviour.

 

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