About this course
Our world's climate is changing. Of the top twenty hottest years
ever recorded, sixteen have occurred in the last two decades. This warming has
already had a profound effect. Many feel powerless in the face of this challenge,
but you can make a difference.
By looking at air quality, nutrition, infectious diseases, and
human migration, this course will show you how increases in greenhouse gases
impact public health. Experts working in a variety of settings will present their
recommendations for responding to these challenges, and interested students
will have the opportunity to learn about the research methods that measure the
health effects of climate change.
Created with support from the Harvard Global Health Institute, this
course will explain how climate change impacts people around the globe, but
also how it directly affects you and your life. Though your riskrises with the
rising global temperatures, climate change is a solvable problem, and there are
things you can do to mitigate that risk.
This course is not an elegy for the planet, but a call to action.
Enroll now to learn what you can do to reduce the harm caused by global
warming.
What you will learn from this course?
In this course you will learn several topics regarding Health issue and Climate Change, such as how climate change impacted on nutrition, migration or even infectious diseases. Besides, you will learn about the research method to understand deeply about this topic. Learning about strategies how to mitigate and adapt of climate change's impact to health sector which is really important to be discussed. On the other hand,
How long you will take this course?
The duration of this course is about 7 weeks with 3-5 hourse per-week, also you will take this course using video, or live video and you will be provided modules too in joining this course.
Syllabus
Health
-- The Human Face of Climate Change
In this week you'll meet the professors, get used to the edX environment,
andreceive an overview of the pathways from climate change to human health
outcomes. This week also includes a Climate Science Mini-Course for those who
haven't studied the greenhouse effect or the effects of carbon dioxide before.
Heat
& Air Quality
From here on, our coursewill be focused on answering a set of questions each
week. This week: How does climate change affect heat-related illness? What does
climate change have to do with air quality? What can be done to prevent heat
exposure?
Infections
How does climate change impact water-borne diseases (like cholera and
dysentery) and vector-borne diseases (such as malaria and dengue)? Will there
be more outbreaks of water-borne diseases in a warming world? How will the
range of disease vectors such as mosquitos and ticks shift with changes in
temperature and rainfall?
Nutrition
Will we grow more crops or fewer in a hotter world? Will those crops be more
nutritious, or less? What about the pests that feed on those crops? How will
marine fisheries adapt to a warmer and more acidic ocean?
Migration
What happens when ambient temperatures exceed human tolerances? When storms,
droughts and, extreme weather displace people - where do they go and what are
the health consequences? What will happen to the inhabitants of small island
states that will be wiped off the map by sea level rise?? What is it like to
live as a climate refugee, both mentally and physically?
Research
Methods
Climate change's impact on health can be gradual and progressive, emerging over
years or even decades. How can one identify the relevant datasets to understand
these emerging health impacts of climate change time series analysis? How can
we address challenges of physical and temporal scale?
Responding
to Climate Change
In our final week, we ask: What can nations, cities, and individuals do to
respond to climate change? What are our options in terms of migration,
adaptation, or even intervention? And given what we can do, what should we do?
