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180.602.01
Environment and Health in Low and Middle income Countries

Location
East Baltimore
Term
3rd Term
Department
Environmental Health and Engineering
Credit(s)
2
Academic Year
2013 - 2014
Instruction Method
TBD
Class Time(s)
Monday, 3:30 - 5:20pm
Auditors Allowed
No
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Contact Name
Christine George
Contact Email
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Prerequisite

None

Description
Introduces students to how environmental health hazards can affect human health in low and middle income settings. The core concepts are: exposure assessment, environmental epidemiology, and risk communication. Topics include: heavy metals, water sanitation and hygiene, waterborne and related diseases, tropical diseases, energy resources and health, and air pollution.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
  1. 1.Explain how toxicology, microbiology, and epidemiology can be used to identify environmental exposures and how they can adversely affect human health
  2. 2.Critically review and synthesize scientific publications on environmental health
  3. 3.Identify environmental health hazards in low and middle income countries and be able to develop interventions to intervene upon them
  4. 4.Discuss and compare clinical, field, and laboratory methods used to detect environmental exposures
  5. 5.Identify a position on a topic related to environmental health and utilizing available scientific evidence to organize an oral and written defense of your position
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