Learning objectives
The main objective of the course is to provide students with useful integrated tools to enable them to effectively address public health problems and threats caused by the effects of globalisation and climate change in their future profession.
Prerequisites
Sociological background knowledge
Course unit content
The course will deal with the relationship between humans and the environment, and the risk also in the light of the interdisciplinary theoretical perspective of One Health, which aims to integrate into a single conceptual and operational framework the interactions between human health, animal health and the socio-environmental characteristics of the different contexts in which the interactions take shape.
Full programme
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Bibliography
Readings provided by the lecturer and uploaded on the Elly platform.
Teaching methods
The teaching activity will be conducted partly in a frontal way, promoting in any case the exchanges and the discussions with the students; partly with exercises, decisional cases and discussions. During the lectures, slides will be projected. All materials will be made available on the Elly platform, also used for communications and notices.
Assessment methods and criteria
The exam will be written and will focus on the exam readings. In particular, it will composed by 2 open-ended questions with no answer limits (time available: 40 minutes). The open-ended questions are general, and have the aim not only of assessing notional learning, but also the ability of the students to process critically and the appropriateness of language. Each open-ended question will be assessed with a score from 0 to 15 points.
Other information
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