Environmental Health

Course goals

At the end of this course students will have basic knowledge of and insight in:
 
-           exposure to environmental agents and their impact on the human body and associated health risks: routes of exposure, effects on target organ level, (patho)physiological responses,  and resulting illness and well-defined disease;
-           basic principles of environmental epidemiology and toxicology, and how the two disciplines both contribute to the scientific study of environmental health problems.;
-           and can apply these principles and theory in a ‘real world’ case study in which the three main themes of the course (exposure, health effects, and risk assessment) play a major role.
 

Content

Environmental health addresses all the physical, chemical, and biological factors external to a person, and all the related behaviours. It encompasses the assessment and control of those environmental factors that can potentially affect health (WHO)..
The course deals with basic principles of Environmental Health as a science, and its application in specific cases of risk evaluation and assessment. It is of specific interest to BIO, MED and EAR students.
 
Format
- lectures
- case study
- (computer) practical
- self-study