INTHE4031 ¨C Environment, Climate Change and One Health

Course content

The Anthropocene has been described as the era of human disturbance on?planet earth that is marked by environmental degradation, changing?climates and increasing pollution. These developments have major?implications on human health, on displacement and access to health care.?

This course introduces students to the intersection of health, climate change?and the environment. After completing the course, the students shall be?familiar with the concepts of, and knowledge related to, the global?distribution of environmental stressors and its implications for infectious and?non-communicable diseases and be able to critically analyse the global?interconnectedness of environmental and climate change, migration and?health.

The students¡¯ competencies are acquired through emphasizing?multidisciplinary and multi-sectoral approaches to health and the?environment and bringing together the understanding of a wide range of?players in improving environmental health and community health.

Learning outcome

Knowledge

After completing the course, you will be able to:

• Explain the essential concepts of One Health, Planetary Health, and?More-than-human Health

• Describe the magnitudes and distribution of major environmental?health challenges, including pollution, nutrition deficiencies, vector?borne diseases, extreme weather hazards, and their cultural, social,?economic and ecological context

• Explain the nexus of climate change and health

• Demonstrate the relationship between Environmental change and?migration

• Classify the major actors committed to Planetary and One health work,?including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,?environmental protection agencies, and civil society actors advocating?environmental and health justice?

Skills

After completing the course, you will be able to:

• Critically evaluate the global distribution and cultural meanings of?illness and environmental and climate change

• Discuss the role of climate change in global migration

• Evaluate theoretical concepts of importance at the intersection of?health justice and environmental justice

• Appraise global environmental policies, agendas and initiatives?relevant to international community health and global health

• Apply appropriate frameworks for research on Environment, Climate?change and One health

General Competences

After completing the course, you will be able to:

• Effectively participate in discussion about environmental change,?planetary and One health in an interdisciplinary and diverse group

• Appreciate the role of Environment, Climate change and One health on?global community health

Admission to the course

Students enrolled in International Community Health (master) have priority.

Students enrolled in other Master's programmes at the Institute of Health and Society can, on application, be admitted to the course if this is cleared by their own study programme.

Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester?register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for?in Studentweb.

If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about?admission requirements and procedures.

Teaching

The course consists of lectures, and seminars. In the seminars, the students?do exercises and assignments related to the course.

80% attendance in the seminars is required to be eligible to take the?exam. Attendance will be registered.

The quota for absence is meant to cover normal sickness absence and the like. You are therefore not given a valid absence from classes based on a medical certificate, even if the absence is due to obstacles for which you yourself cannot be blamed. In special cases, for example in the case of serious or long-term illness, you can apply for special needs provisions.

Access to teaching

A student who has completed compulsory instruction and coursework and?has had these approved, is not entitled to repeat that instruction and?coursework. A student who has been admitted to a course, but who has not?completed compulsory instruction and coursework or had these approved, is?entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework, depending on available?capacity.

Examination

Written school examination, individual.

80% attendance in the seminars is required to be eligible to take the exam.?

Examination and grading at The Faculty of Medicine.

Examination support material

All written and printed material.

Language of examination

The examination text is given in English, and you submit your response in English.?

Grading scale

Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about?the grading system.

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