Mar 28, 2024  
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2018-2019 Academic Catalog [Published Catalog]

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GHHE 000/6110 - Global Challenges in Environmental Medicine (3 cr.)



Description
Environmental impact on human health with the development of what often reaches epidemic proportions of concern is not limited to the interaction between an etiological factor and the individual. In fact, what this environment becomes is often determined by human behavior. In a global community, it has become a priority in public health prevention and communication. In an interdependent environment, questions of water and air quality have political and social ramifications, with human health being the victim. The efforts to increase agricultural yields through pesticide and synthetic fertilizer use and chronic illness are no longer issues confined to a village or a limited region. The race for prosperity through industrial development and adoption of the superficial trappings of prosperity are not without their medical consequences. Through the use of case studies, the interplay between culture, geopolitics, ecology and medicine, are explored: from Minamata Bay to the Hudson River to the Faroe Islands; the Amazon to Toms River, New Jersey; the sands of Arabia to Los Angeles; from acid rain to nanoparticles; from the Nile to bottled water.



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