Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2501915 Environmental Sciences | OB | 3 | 2 |
No prerequisites
INTRODUCTION
The subject is structured in two complementary parts. The first one studies how the environmental environment can affect the health of people and the approach will be carried out from the epidemiological perspective. In the second part, the integral management of the environmental risks of catastrophic and immediate impacts such as those of a natural or technological nature is posed.
OBJECTIVES
Know the main environmental risk factors for health.
Provide tools for the understanding and discussion the epidemiological studies.
Know the main scientific perspectives on environmental risks as well as contrast scientific and social visions from the critical analysis.
Introduce students to risk management.
Know about selected examples of specific types of risks.
1. Presentation of the subject. Health in the management of environmental risk. Introduction to environmental epidemiology, concepts of public health.
2. Principle of precaution and risk assessment for health. Evaluation of carcinogens in humans by IARC.
3. Measure of disease effect. Incidence, prevalence, rates and attributable risk. Sources of information
4. Measure of exposure. General concepts and measures in the environment. Questionnaires and biomarkers.
5. Types of epidemiological studies for the description and evaluation of causal associations between exposure and disease.
6. Case studies and controls.
7. Cohort studies. Relative risk
8. Bias, factors of confusion and stratification. Causal criteria.
9. Exposure to organochlorine compounds.
10. Water pollution
11. Atmospheric pollution. Main pollutants and acute and chronic effects.
12. Electromagnetic fields: ionizing and non-ionizing radiation and its effects on health.
13. Climate change and health.
14. Introduction to the integral management of environmental risk: definition, classifications and measures.
15. Environmental risk and impacts in the current world.
16. The perception of risk
17. The communication of risk
18. Risk, vulnerability and distributive justice.
19. Flooding Case study of the Rubí stream.
20. Extreme weather phenomena.
21. Drought
22. Earthquakes
23. Technological risks. Industrial risk
Theoretical in classroom, practices in pc lab and field work.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Field trip | 15 | 0.6 | 3, 10 |
Practices | 20 | 0.8 | 2, 11, 12, 3, 5, 4, 10, 13, 9, 1, 15, 14 |
Theoretical | 45 | 1.8 | 2, 11, 12, 3, 4, 10, 13 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Practices and informs redaction | 75 | 3 | 2, 11, 12, 3, 5, 4, 10, 13, 9, 1, 15, 14 |
Study | 70 | 2.8 | 2, 11, 12, 5, 4, 10, 9, 15 |
1. There are two partial exams, one for each part of the subject. It is necessary to obtain more than 3 (out of 10) of each partial exam to be able to do an average with the practices and with the other part of the subject.
2. If the global mark of each part does not exceed 5, a final recovery exam must be carried out.
3. Practices must be carried out and approved to be able to make a mean.
5. The block of environmental epidemiology is worth 50% of the final note as well as the environmental risk.
To ask for a reevaluation the student must have been received a mark in activities that represent at least 2/3 of the global mark during the course.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Exam | 60% (Epidemiology) 60% (Risc) | 0 | 0 | 2, 11, 12, 6, 7, 8, 13, 1 |
Practices and field trip | 40% (Epidemiology) 40% (Risk) | 0 | 0 | 2, 11, 12, 3, 6, 7, 5, 4, 8, 10, 13, 9, 1, 15, 14 |
Bigliography
web links
WHO - OMS Organització Mundial de la Salut |
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Agència Europea del Medi Ambient |
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Programa de les Nacions Unides pel Medi Ambient |
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US Environmental Protection Agency |
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International Society for Environmental Epidemiology |
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WFP_ Programa Mundial d’Aliments |
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European Centre for Environment and Health |
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Publicacions de la UE. Sovint hi ha publicacions disponibles en pdf sobre salut i medi ambient |
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Agència internacional d’avaluació del càncer |
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Natural Hazards Center |
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Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters |
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Estratègia Internacional per a la Reducció de Desastres |
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Protecció Civil Espanya |
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Direcció General de Protecció Civil (Catalunya) |
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Consorcio de Compensación de Seguros |