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The Biology of Water and Health - Part 1

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大学或机构: OECx

授课老师： Jeffrey Griffiths MD,MPH,AB,TM David M. Gute Ph.D.,M.P.H.,FACE

课程主页: https://www.edx.org/archive/biology-water-health-part-1-oecx-ph241x-0

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Learn from Tufts University about the provision of safe water, sanitation and sustainability to improve global public health.

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  • Recognize the central role of water quality and quantity in health and the effect of a safe water supply on population health.
  • Identify why and how different types of waterborne diseases occur, how to treat them, and social justice and policy issues concerning preventing such diseases through provision of safe water sanitation.
  • Describe the primacy of prevention from a public health perspective and how public health engineering contributes to creating and maintaining a safe water supply.
  • Examine lead (Pb) as a selected chemical contaminant in water, how it still poses a threat to human health today, and political and economic challenges with systemic efforts of eliminating it from water.

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This course from Tufts University examines increasingly critical water-related issues through a distinctly global and interdisciplinary lens.

In Part 1 of the course, you will explore the multi-faceted ways in which water and human health are interrelated, including the influence of waterborne pathogens on public health and the central role of water quantity and quality in preserving health through adequate sanitation and hygiene.  

The unique interdisciplinary approach of this course gives the general public, as well as health professionals in a variety of fields, a provocative introduction to the public health and human engineering components involved in the provision of safe water and sanitation. It provides an interdisciplinary framework for understanding the place of water in health policy and engineering by helping participants give informed voice to the ways in which water is involved in social interactions, belief systems, and the economics of an increasingly interconnected and interdependent world.

Part 2 of this course, focusing on creating sustainable interventions for safe water, will begin on Tuesday, September 29, 2015.

This course is the first in a 2-part series that will be offered in 2014-2015 by Tufts University. All course content is openly licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. After the conclusion of the course, materials will be available through edX as well on the Tuft University Open Courseware website.

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