Wikipedia:Canada Education Program/Courses/Environmental Change: Challenges for Health (Penny Powers)/Course description

Course description
This course introduces students to the most recent developments in the science of climate change and the resulting impact on the health of populations worldwide. Changes in disease risk and emerging diseases and conditions will be reviewed. Since health care is one of the most wasteful systems in terms of its carbon footprint, various efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions will be reviewed. The effect of global warming will necessitate new approaches to health and new responses to spreading of tropical diseases.

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