# Introduction to the course and overview --- ## In this lecture presentation ... - A brief overview of the course - Assessments and modules - Due dates - Basics of Environmental and Occupational Health - Your questions and answers --- ## What will you learn - Concepts of environmental health - Concepts of epidemiology - Toxicology - Environmental Health risk assessment - Occupational health and hazards - Specific issues: air pollution, water sanitation hygiene, and others --- ## Logistics: when and where - Classes are held at Rehua 101 - Tuesdays, 11 AM - 1 PM - Lectures are also in Zoom - Zoom recordings are made available after class --- ## Order of the topics - First half of the course: theory - Second half of the course: applications - This class is discursive and hands-on - Theoretical topics are on video - Practical hands-on and discussions in class --- ## Tutorial and textbook - No tutorial classes - Use tutorial time for self-organised learning - No textbook - Instead of textbook, journal articles and book chapters in PDF - Read the materials and be prepared to discuss them --- ## Assessments - Two assessments in the course: - a memo (50% wt, 50 marks) and - annotated bibliography (50% wt, 50 marks) --- ## Memo - Write a memo on Environmental or Occupational health issue - Address it to your local councillor - Write the envirommental and related health issue - Word limit: 2000 words, excludes words in images, tables, title, etc - Submit by 21st August, 5 PM --- ## Annotated bibliography - Select Environmental Health Problem - Search scholarly databases - Cite each article using APA 7th version - Next to each article, write a short summary and note about it - word limit 2000 words - Word count excludes words in title/abstract/ titles of papers/tables/images --- ## Getting help - Try Forum first - Post your question to the forum - Add a new discussion topic --- ## How to get notifications in Forum  --- ## Key concepts in this course - Environment is about human-engendered and external - Hazard is potential of harm and qualitative - Risk is realised health effect - Exposure is external, dose is at the target organ - Occupational Health is a special case of Environmental Health --- ## Main topics - Environmental Epidemiology - Toxicology - Environmental Health Risk Assessment - Occupational Health - Topics related to Environmental and Occupational Health --- ## Environmental Epidemiology - Distribution and determinants of health states - Measures of distribution and determinants - Internal and external validity - Causal inference in Environmental Health - Environmental epidemiological study designs --- ## Toxicology - Dose is the poison is an important concept - What the toxin does to the body (toxicokinetics) - What the body does to the toxin (toxicodynamics) - Threshold of effect - Dose-response gradients --- ## Dose is the poison  --- ## Environmental Health risk assessment  --- ## Specific Health issues - Air pollution - Water, sanitation, hygiene - Occupational hazards - Sustainable living - Climate change --- ## Conclusion: how to ace this course - Complete the assigned readings on time - Complete the assessments on time - We use "flipped grading", so submit on time - Everyone passes this course, so - Focus on studying and gaining knowledge --- # Enjoy the course!