2 Week Short Course: Climate Change and Health, causes, impacts and adaptation policies
9-20 June 2008; Heidelberg University, Germany
The UniversitätsKlinikum Heidelberg is offering a short course on Climate Change and Health under the direction of Rainer Sauerborn. Objectives of the course include:
- To understand the relevance of climate change for the health of populations
- To be able to carry out calculations of attributable risk
- To understand the physics of climate change in order to appreciate policies of mitigation
- To understand the potential impact of extreme weather events on populations and on health service infrastructure
- To be able to describe disaster protection strategies To understand the direct effect of temperature on health
- To be able to design measures to protect vulnerable populations against these effects
- To understand the impact of climate change on malaria and schistosomiasis both in changes of transmission characteristics and in changes of populations at risk
- To understand rodent borne and water borne climate sensitive diseases
- To be capable of designing public health intervention against them
- To understand the links between climate change, food production and the water cycle
- To derive from this knowledge the anticipated increase in a set of climate sensitive diseases
- To understand mitigation as a strategy to prevent climate change
- To be familiar with a set of technical policy options
- To understand the lag time between policy implementation and climate improvement
- To understand the options for adaptation of health systems and interventions
- To apply this to a specific facet of climate impact in the participant’s health care setting
- To understand and be able to implement specific health interventions to protect populations against the impact of climate change
Courses will include, lectures and classroom discussions based on readings, student work groups. student presentations, as well as site visits and discussion with stakeholders, film showings, a podcast, access to the University of Heidelberg library and computer lab.
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Short Course on Climate Change and Health
Contact: Rainer Sauerborn