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Environmental Health Special Lecture

Last update: 17 January 2016

1. Overview

Environmental health is one of the core curriculums in the Master of Public Health programs (currently we don't have MPH course in Kobe University, it is planned in the future). It is very important to understand the human health and survival in relation to their environmental conditions, any of physical, chemical, biological. This lecture outlines the relationships between human health and environmental factors and discuss them. The items shown below are not fully covered, but at least outlined.

2. Plan

The lecture is done in the second semester on Thursday, 14:40-16:10 at GSICS 206.

• Overview: Orientation and Introduction (1. presentation in pdf)
• Methods and paradigms: Ecology and environmental health (2. presentation in pdf), Toxicology (3. presentation in pdf. See, R code for LD50 estimation from the MHLW data), Environmental and occupational epidemiology (4. handout in pdf), Exposure assessment, industrial hygiene and environmental management (5. handout in pdf), Environmental psychology, Genetics and environmental health (6. handout in pdf), environmental health ethics, environmental justice (7. handout in pdf)
• Environmental health on the global scale: Population pressure (8. handoout in pdf), climate change (9. handout in pdf), developing nations
• Environmental health on the regional scale: Air pollution, Energy production, Healthy communities, Water and health (12. handout in pdf)
• Environmental health on the local scale: Solid and hazardous waste (10. handout in pdf), Pest control and pesticides, Food safety (11. handout in pdf, MRA course materials), Healthy buildings, Workplace health and safety, Noise and Radiation (15. handout in pdf, revised after the lecture), Injuries, Environmental disasters (14. handout in pdf), Nature contact, Children and environment
• Practice of environmental health: Prevention in environmental health, Environmental health practice, Geographic information systems, Risk assessment and risk communication (13. handout in pdf), Environmental health policy, Legal remedies

3. Evaluation

Based on presentation, discussion, and report.

4. Reference

Frumkin H [Ed.] (2010) Environmental Health: From Global to Local, 2nd Ed. Jossey-Bass, John Wiley and Sons.

5. Office hour

For the students of the Graduate School of Health Sciences, Tuesday, 18:00-18:30, at Myodani campus E707. For the students of GSICS, Thusday, 16:40-18:00 at Frontier Building Room 717. Taking appointment is recommended.

6. Message to the students

Done in English.

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