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Teaching language : English
Learning outcomes
By the end of the year, the students will be able to:
- Describe national and European regulatory programs, guidelines and authorities that control environmental health issues
- Describe the effects of major environmental and occupational agents, explain the general mechanisms of toxicity and describe factors that affect susceptibility to adverse health outcomes following exposure to environmental hazards.
- Apply environmental risk assessment methods and specify approaches for assessing, preventing and controlling environmental hazards that pose risks to human health and safety.
Course content
Compulsory modules (30 ECTS)
- Upgrading Biostatistics (not credited)
- Advanced Core module – Environmental and occupational health sciences (3 ECTS)
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The control of environmental infectious diseases (3 ECTS)
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and environmental health (3 ECTS)
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Impact assessment in environmental health (3 ECTS)
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Critical windows of exposures and vulnerability (3 ECTS)
- Advanced Core module – Epidemiology (3 ECTS)
- Advanced Planetary Health (3 ECTS)
- Advanced Core module – Information sciences and biostatistics (3 ECTS)
- 2 Electives to be chosen among: Infectious disease epidemiology, ISB Multidimensional & multivariate statistical methods, Methods and design in Epidemiology, Spatial Statistical analysis (6 ECTS)
- SUPRA OPTIONAL. Advanced core module in Social & Behavioural Sciences, Advanced core module Management & Health policy, Humanitarian Health in Crisis Situation, Health Policies and health systems in LIC (not credited)
Dissertation and internship (27 ECTS)
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N.B.: Minor changes may occur in the detailed programme from one intake to another.