HLTH214: Environmental and Occuptional Health

Description

HLTH214, "Environmental and Occupational Health" is a course of Environmental and Occupational Health for undergraduate students in the School of Health Sciences. The course is 0.125 EFT or 15 points, where 1 EFT = 40 hours/week. This means you are expected to spend 5 hours per week studying for this course. Two of these hours will be in the classroom.

Learning outcomes

After successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

LO1. Define Environmental and occupational health related concepts

LO2. Critically ppraise studies on Environmental and Occupational Health

LO3. Communicate evidence-based environmental issues and concerns in your community

LO4. Learn to conduct environmental health risk assessment using appropraite software tools

University Graduate Attributes

GA1. Employable, innovative and enterprising

​​​​- Work effectively and professionally with diverse communities (LO3 and LO4)
​​​​- Communication (LO3)
​​​​- Digital Literacy (LO2,LO3, and LO4)

GA2. Bicultural competence and confidence

​​​​- Process of self-reflection (LO1, LO2)
​​​​- Traditional and contemporary realities of Maori society (LO2 and LO3)
​​​​- Application of bicultural competence and confidence in Environmental Health (LO2 and LO4)

GA3. Globally aware

​​​​- Understanding global nature of environmental and occupational health (LO1 and LO4)
​​​​- Ability to engage critically and effectively in global and multicultural contexts (LO2 and LO3)

GA4 Community engagement

​​​​- Gaining knowledge and understanding through reflection (LO2 and LO3)
​​​​- Understanding and articulating how content of Environmental and Occupational Health enhances the community (LO3 and LO4)

Course Coordinator

Dr Arindam Basu

Room 405F, Manawa,

176 St Asaph Street,

Phone: [phone],

Email: [e-mail]

To schedule a 30 minute appointment with Arindam Basu, please fill in this form:

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Timetable 2020

Classroom venue: Rehua 101 Lectorial:

Classroom time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

There is NO Tutorial in this course

• 14th July, Introduction and Overview
• 21st July, Environmental Epidemiology
• 28th July, Occupational Health
• 4th August, Introduction to Toxicology
• 11th August, Hazard and Exposure
• 18th August, Risk Characterisation
• 8th September, Air pollution
• 15th September, Water sanitation and hygiene (WASH)
• 22nd September, Occupational hazards
• 29th September, Sustainability
• 6th October, Health effects of climate change
• 13th October, Summary and final class

Assessment

A1. Write a memo addressed to a local Councillor on an Environmental or Occupational health related issue (50%, marked out of 50)

A2. Write an annotated bibliography of a selected environmental health issue of your choice (50%, marked out of 50)

A1. First assessment: Memo assignment (50% weight, marked out of 50)

Write a memo on an environmental or occupational health topic you think appropriate to your local councillor.

Step by step instructions:

1. Choose an environmental or occupational health issue
2. Conduct research on that environmental or occupational problem
3. Discuss health issues associated with the problem
4. Write why addressing this problem is important where you live
5. Write how you will address the environmental health related problem
6. End the memo with what you expect the councillor to do
7. Word limit is 2000 words.
8. The word count excludes all words included in tables, figures, and list of references, and includes only words in the main body of the text (words in caption, summary, headings, text, etc)
9. You must use the template provided in the course and instructions written there.
10. Submit the memo through Learn as a pdf document by 21st August, 2020 5 PM (this is a hard deadline, you can submit earlier but not later than this date)

A2. Second Assessment task: Annotated Bibliography

Write an annotated bibliography of a selected environmental or occupational health problem (your choice, can be same as A1)

Step by step instructions:

• Select an environmental health issue (your choice).
• Research as many scholarly databases as you can and identify articles, books, monographs, reports (the list is not exhaustive). These are called "resources"
• In your document, cite each resource as per APA citation rules.
• Next to each resource, write at least one paragraph
• In the paragraph summarise the content of the paper and critically appraise the paper based on everything you learned in the course.
• Word limit is 2000 words.
• The word count excludes all words included tables, figures, and list of references, and includes only words in the main body of the text (words in caption, summary, headings, text, etc)
• Submit the memo through Learn as a pdf document by 16th October, 2020, 5 PM (this is a hard deadline, you can submit earlier but not later than this date)

Course Links

• Course github page: https://github.com/arinbasu/HLTH214-Environmental-and-Occupational-Health/tree/gh-pages

• Course osf.io page: https://osf.io/harvf/

• Course wooclaps: https://app.wooclap.com/home

• Course Youtube video page: TK

• Course information page: https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/courseinfo/GetCourseDetails.aspx?course=HLTH214&occurrence=20S2©&year=2020

• Learn page (requires log in): https://learn.canterbury.ac.nz/course/view.php?id=7182

Special consideration

If you miss an assessment, you can apply for special consideration for that assessment. You can do that only for one assessment in this course. For more information, please see

http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/study/special-consideration/