ENVH9721 Human Systems in Environmental Health

2016

4.5

1 x 60-minute lecture weekly
1 x 60-minute tutorial weekly
1 x 240-minute on-line exercises weekly

1 of ENVH8005, ENVH8721 has been successfully completed

Class Contact for Internal Students:

6 Hours of On-line Excercises Weekly

1 Hour Tutorial per week

The topic introduces the basic tools required for understanding the application of environmental health to risk assessments. It introduces the principles of physiological systems that may be adversely affected by environmental stressors, and includes the nature of disease and illness, homeostasis and the maintenance of healthy systems, and the role of selected stressors on these systems. It uses the discipline of toxicology to illustrate the adverse outcomes associated with environmental chemicals. The topic then introduces the principles of risk assessment in the context of chemical exposures and considers the paradigms that underpin risk assessment and risk management strategies.

At the completion of the topic, students are expected to be able to:

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the concept of good health and an awareness of the historical and current knowledge of how ill health is manifest
2. Understand physiology and demonstrate a working knowledge of the basic principles of toxicology
3. Use toxicology as a tool that is applied to risk assessments used in the practice of environmental health