Jul 08, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
[Archived Catalog]
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T3 4010 - Climate Change and Public Health
This course offers a synthesis of the health, social, community, and physical factors of climate change that are related to public health outcomes. Topics include human health effects from vector-, water-, and foodborne diseases; disaster and weather-related health effects; and strategies to minimize or mitigate adverse public health outcomes.
Requisites: Sr and EH 2000, GEOG 2400, GEOL 2150, or PBIO 1030
Credit Hours: 3
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Categorize the major predicted health effects from climate change.
- Compare vulnerability in developing countries versus developed countries as a result of climate change.
- Critically analyze scientific information to address the public health consequences of a changing climate.
- Distiniguish between adaptation and mitigation policies to manage the health risks of climate change.
- Evaluate the evidence for climate change impacts on health.
- Explain the scientific principles and basic concepts of climate change.
- Formulate recommendations to reduce the potential adverse health impacts of climate change on health in a specific community.
- Synthesize social, physical, behavioral, and health science in the context of climate change.
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