SFOK16011U Children and Environmental Health
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The course will be based on the textbook of children's environmental health edited by Philip Landrigan and Ruth A Etzel from Oxford University press with introduction to pediatrics, exposure science, environments, environmental hazards, prevention and control of diseases and legal and ethical aspects.
The course describes exposure, toxicology and epidemiology of exposures to children from outdoor and indoor emission sources. Assessment of hazards from exposure to air pollution, food, consumer products
Exposures is for a large part based on review of available data on exposure, toxicology and epidemiology by international expert committees. It describes an integrated approach to hazard identification of environmental exposures, using information on exposure assessment, toxicology and epidemiology. The curriculum encompasses individual risk evaluations including human biomonitoring studies.
Children and cognitive and behavioral adverse effects from prenatal and early childhood environments will be presented by clinical experts
After completing the course the student is expected to:
Knowledge
- Understading most common diseases in children, how to prevent, diagnose and treat including paediatrics
- Understanding problems of exposure assessment for components in air pollution, food and consumer products specifucally related to children, taking different age groups into account
- Understanding children health epidemiology applying the Bradford Hill criteria
- Understanding integrated hazard identification procedure
- Understand the special ethical and legal demands related to
studies with children
Skills
- Critical insight into prevention, diagnosing and treatment by paediatric expertise
- Participate in development and validation of exposure assessment of children
- Analyse exposure-response relationships
- Apply methods for exposure assessment for air pollution exposures, food borne exposures and exposures from cinsumer products, including human biomonitoring
- Perform risk assessment and risk communication of adverse
effects from the envornment og childrens health
Competences
- Critical insight into prevention, diagnosing and treatment by paediatric expertise
- Extract and discuss strength and weaknesses of relevant toxicological and epidemiological literature
- Discuss exposure and outcome assessment with relevant specialists
- Critically evaluate and interpret toxicological and epidemiological studies, design and data
- Discuss and apply the results on toxicological and epidemiological studies in hazard identification of childrens environmental exposures
- Apply the special ethical and legal demands related to studies
with children in a study protocol
The students should specifically be able to: - define the most common paeditric challenges related to environment
- define the specific vulnerability of children to environmental exposues
- name the major exposure routes and sources
- describe the major diseases of environmental origin in children
- describe risk assessment and risk management
- analyse the major ethical and legal issues related to studies with children
The course will be based on the textbook of children's environmental health edited by Philip Landrigan and Ruth A Etzel from Oxford University press and monographs/scientific papers to be discussed in the class by presentations of the students.
- Category
- Hours
- Class Instruction
- 50
- Course Preparation
- 180
- Exam
- 45
- Total
- 275
Open for credit transfer students and other external students. Apply here:
Credit transfer students:
http://healthsciences.ku.dk/education/other-programme-options/credit-transfer-students/
Other external students:
http://healthsciences.ku.dk/education/exchange_guest_students/guest-students/
- Credit
- 10 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Written assignmentThe students will be asked for a self selected assignment with a topic within Childrens Environmental Health.
Individual written assignment to be worked on throughout the course and handed in on the last day of the course. - Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
One internal examiner.
- Exam period
- Re-exam
Please see the exam schedule at KUnet
The exam form in the re-examination may differ from the ordinary exam. Should this happen, students registered for the re-examination will be informed as soon as possible.
Criteria for exam assesment
To achieve the maximum grade of 12, the student must be able to:
Knowledge
- Understand problems of exposure assessment for components in air pollution, food and consumer products specifucally related to children, taking different age groups into account
- Understand children health epidemiology applying the Bradford Hill criteria
- Understand integrated hazard identification procedure
- Understand the special ethical and legal demands related to
studies with children
Skills
- Demonstrate independent skills in assessing inportant
environmental health problems for children, the prevention ,
regulation and ethical and legal aspects.
Competences
- Define the most common paeditric challenges related to environment
- Define the specific vulnerability of children to environmental exposues
- Name the major exposure routes and sources
- Describe the major diseases of environmental origin in children
- Describe risk assessment and risk management
- Analyse the major ethical and legal issues related to studies with children
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- SFOK16011U
- Credit
- 10 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Spring
- Schedule
- See Schedule in Syllabus.
- Course capacity
- 40 students
- Continuing and further education
- Study board
- The Study Board for Public Health Science and Global Health
Contracting department
- Department of Public Health
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
Course Coordinators
- Lisbeth E. Knudsen (4-6f6c686e4376787167316e7831676e)
Lecturers
Lisbeth E. Knudsen and colleagues from the Institute of Public Health and from outside.