Admission requirements
None
Description
This course explores the relationship people have with their environment, the risk management choices made, and the resulting associations that affect health and physical well-being for the individual, communities and susceptible populations. The course also emphasizes a “One Health” approach to environmental and occupational health issues that considers the ecological relationships between human, animal, and environmental health. The course examines a representative sample of environmental hazards and major environmental events and media, with comparative local and global case through problem solving approach. Course assignments stress developing basic literacy in environmental and occupational concepts and applying this knowledge to problem solving. As everyone is affected by environmental health principles and topical areas of concern every day; we all eat, drink, produce waste, and breathe air each day. This course delivers important information and resources for the students' own health and wellness advocacy as they move out beyond this institution.
Course Objectives
At the end of this course, the student should be able to:
1. Describe and discuss foundational concepts and strategies of environmental and occupational health sciences; one health framework; their relationship to public health practice, and draw generalizable conclusions about how they apply in different situations.
2. Practice investigative skills where students apply foundational concepts and strategies, contextual analysis, and systems thinking in comprehensive investigations of environmental and occupational health; one health framework
3. Characterize methodologies and approaches to understandingand managing risks to health and the environment and describe major factors that determine environmental health risks relevant for: urban health, water and sanitation, solid waste, and emerging health topics
4. Communicate information in plain language (orally and in writing) to a target audience about environmental health risks, influential factors, and prevention strategies; and anticipate or identify risk perceptions and relevant concerns in the target audience
5. Perform effectively on teams and in different team roles; promote collegiality, inclusion and trust; and apply ethical principles to the learning experience.
Timetable
Timetables for courses offered at Leiden University College in 2021-2022 will be published on this page of the e-Prospectus.
Mode of instruction
Methods of Instruction: Lecture, discussions, podcast, media viewing, among others.
Assessment Method
Participation/ weekly concept map presentation (individual or pair), 15%
Mid term, 20%
Group causal loop diagram (systems approach) and Policy brief, 30%
Final exam, 30%
Reading list
Compulsory literature:
- Deem, Sharon L., Kelly E. Lane-deGraaf, and Elizabeth A. Rayhel. Introduction to One Health: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Planetary Health. John Wiley & Sons, 2019.
Registration
Courses offered at Leiden University College (LUC) are usually only open to LUC students and LUC exchange students. Leiden University students who participate in one of the university’s Honours tracks or programmes may register for one LUC course, if availability permits. Registration is coordinated by the Education Coordinator, course.administration@luc.leidenuniv.nl.
Contact
Dr. M.J. Cho, m.j.cho@luc.leidenuniv.nl