SFOK16011U Children and Environmental Health
MSc in Public Health Science
BSc in Public Health Science
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 andepidemiology 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
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
- Credit
- 10 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Written assignmentThe students will be asked for a self selected assignment with atopic 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
See the exam schedule here: http://sund.ku.dk/uddannelse/vejledning-information/eksamensplaner/folkesundhedsvidenskab/
- Re-exam
See the exam schedule here: http://sund.ku.dk/uddannelse/vejledning-information/eksamensplaner/folkesundhedsvidenskab/
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 MasterBachelor
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Spring
- Schedule
- See Schedule in Syllabus.
- Course capacity
- 40 students
- Study board
- The Study Board for Public Health Science and Global Health
Contracting department
- Department of Public Health
Course responsibles
- Lisbeth E. Knudsen (4-6e6b676d4275777066306d7730666d)
Lecturers
Lisbeth E. Knudsen and colleagues from the Institute of Public Health. Invited lectures are from the Faculty of Law and Pernille Due from Public Health, University of Southern Denmark