Annals of Education: Teaching Climate Change and Global Public Health.

ABSTRACT: The climate crisis is a health emergency: breaking temperature records every successive month, increasing mortality from hurricanes/cyclones resulting in >USD150 billion/year in damages, and mounting global loss of life from floods, droughts, and food insecurity. An entire course on climate change and global public health was envisioned, designed for students in public health, and delivered to Masters level students. The course content included the physical science behind global heating, heat waves, extreme weather disasters, arthropod-related diseases, allergies, air pollution epidemiology, melting ice and sea level rise, climate denialism, renewable energy and economics, social cost of carbon, and public policy. The methods included student engagement in presenting two air pollution epid

SUBMITTER: Rom WN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10815579 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature