Learning outcomes

The honours certificate is intended to provide you with the means to learn about key competencies for sustainability and connect these to challenges in sustainable healthcare. You will also learn how to pass on this competence to others.

Knowledge

After completing the honours certificate, you will be able to: 

  • Explain why our civilization continues to overexploit the planet's natural resources and why this practice is unsustainable.
  • Explain how sustainable practices are important to ensure healthy lives for all humans, animals and the environment we all share.
  • Appraise how anthropogenic changes to natural systems, including their close and distant causes, influence health outcomes.
  • Explain different pedagogical methods for working with sustainable healthcare and passing on that knowledge to others.
  • Account for the UNESCO framework for sustainability competencies and its history.
  • Describe and explain the role of public health and prevention (such as prevention of non-communicable disease; epidemics; etc.) within a sustainable healthcare system – globally and nationally.

Skills

After completing the honours certificate, you will be able to:

  • Design and implement transformative solutions to Planetary Health challenges and One Health challenges using systems thinking. 
  • Identify, analyze and describe complex systems such as the interface between human health and the environment and their interdependence in relation to healthcare challenges.
  • Utilize various pedagogical teaching methods connected to UNESCO's key competencies for sustainability.

General competence

After completing the honours certificate, you will be able to: 

  • Acknowledge the interconnectedness between humans and nature as the overall objective.
  • Inspire and contribute to system changes for a just and sustainable future.
  • Work systematical to contribute to preventive change to support a sustainable healthcare system.
Published June 20, 2023 2:55 PM - Last modified Sep. 13, 2024 1:15 PM