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所在平台: Coursera |
课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-climate-change-health
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课程名称：气候变化与健康导论 课程概述：气候变化是21世纪对人类健康的最大威胁之一，但其对健康的影响仍不为人所熟知。为了帮助卫生和环境专业人士以及其他变革者和公众了解这一问题，本课程旨在提供能够积极影响行动的关键知识。课程首先介绍气候变化的科学原理，以及气候变化如何影响人类健康。随后深入探讨气候变化带来的不良健康影响，包括极端高温、水源性感染、昆虫传播疾病，以及暴风雨和洪水的影响。在整个过程中，关注健康公平的主题贯穿始终，指出使某些人群在气候变化的负面健康影响中更为脆弱的因素。最后，课程解释了减少温室气体排放的措施如何不仅能限制未来的气候变化，还能在减少气候变化的基础上带来显著的即时健康“共同利益”。 学习成果：完成课程后，学生将能够： - 在入门级别描述气候变化的过程，解释温室气体在气候变化中的作用，并描述未来气候的预测变化。 - 描述气候变化如何通过直接影响、生态系统的转变和退化，以及对政治、经济和社会系统施加压力，从而对人口健康产生不利影响，并指出不同人群的脆弱性。 - 解释适应和减缓策略如何减少气候变化的不良健康影响，并以公正和公平的方式产生显著的非气候健康益处。 课程大纲： 第一部分：气候变化基础 描述：气候为什么以及如何变化？在不同的气候变化情景下，未来的变化预测是什么？ 第二部分：气候变化对健康影响的概述、适应、减缓及共同利益 描述：气候变化如何影响健康，哪些人群对这些影响特别脆弱？减缓气候变化如何在短期和长期内带来公共健康益处？ 第三部分：极端天气：热浪、风暴与洪水 描述：极端天气如何对人类健康产生负面影响？哪些人群对这些健康影响最脆弱，原因是什么？这些负面健康影响在未来气候变化下预测将如何变化？ 第四部分：课程总结 描述：提供课程内容的总结和核心要点。
Part: 1
Title:Fundamentals of Climate Change
Description:Why and how is the climate changing? What changes are predicted in the future under different climate change scenarios?
Part: 2
Title:Overview of Health Impacts of Climate Change, Adaptation, Mitigation, and Co-benefits
Description:How does climate change impact health, and what populations are especially vulnerable to these impacts? How can mitigating climate change provide public health benefits in the short- and long-term?
Part: 3
Title: Extreme Weather: Heat, Storms, & Floods
Description:How does extreme weather, including heat, storms, and floods, negatively impact human health? What populations are most vulnerable to these health effects and why? How are these negative health effects projected to change in the future under climate change?
Part: 4
Title:Course conclusion
Description:
Climate change is one of the greatest threats to human health in the 21st century. Yet these impacts to health are still not well recognized. Since you can’t change what you don’t understand, this course is designed to equip health and environmental professionals, as well as other changemakers and the public, with critical and usable knowledge to take positive action. The course begins with an introduction to the science of climate change and how climate change affects human health. It takes a deep dive into climate change’s adverse health effects, including those related to extreme heat, waterborne infections, insect-borne diseases, and exposure to storms and floods. Throughout, the theme of health equity is interwoven by pointing to what factors make some populations more vulnerable than others to climate change’s negative health impacts. Finally, the course explains how measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions can not only limit future climate change but can also generate substantial immediate health “co-benefits” over and above the benefit of reducing climate change. Following completion of the course, students will be able to: · At an introductory level, describe how the climate has changed, explain the role of greenhouse gases in climate change, and describe how the climate is predicted to change in the future. · Describe how climate change adversely impacts population health, with differing vulnerability across population sub-groups, through direct effects; through ecosystem transformation and degradation; and through the stress it places on political, economic, and social systems. · Explain how adaptation and mitigation strategies can reduce adverse health impacts of climate change and can generate substantial non-climate health benefits in a just and equitable manner.
