Environmental healthLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

Epidemiology is the study of how often diseases occur in different groups of people and why. Toxicology is science that elucidates the causality chain of interactions and their exposure between biological entities of different intrinsic susceptibility and chemical and physical agents of different intrinsic potency. Safe water and sanitation pose universal challenges for public health.Global and regional phenomena such as climate change and geopolitical shifts attention to local needs and opportunities. Extreme weather events causes more water-related diseases and make ie. fungal diseases spreading larger areas.Meanwhile scarcity of water make crop production as a challenge, demand of more crop with less water. You know the main features of national and international guidance and regulations concerning contaminants causing effects on environment and impacts on human and animal health.

Content

What are the infectious disease risks associated with the unregulated components of the water distribution system including, but not limited to private systems (private community and individual wells) and premise plumbing? Is the wheat rust and other plant and animal fungal diseases and pandemics risks increasing globally? How to fight against zoonooses and human diseases on local and global levels? Sustainable agriculture and production of high quality products global and balanced feeding?

Assessment criteria, good (3)

a) use professional vocabulary and concepts in an expert way in different situations. b) evaluate information sources critically. c) work as team members in working life expert duties and identify and describe the problems of the professional field. e) choose appropriate models, methods, software and techniques according to the purpose and justify these choices.