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General information |
Course unit name: Environment, Population and Emerging Diseases
Course unit code: 568600
Academic year: 2021-2022
Coordinator: Georgios Athanasiadis
Department: Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Credits: 2,5
Single program: S
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Estimated learning time |
Total number of hours 62.5 |
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Face-to-face and/or online activities |
22 |
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- Lecture |
Face-to-face |
18 |
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- Seminar |
Face-to-face |
4 |
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Supervised project |
10 |
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Independent learning |
30.5 |
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Learning objectives |
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Referring to knowledge — Describe and discuss the relationship between the environment and disease in human populations.
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Teaching blocks |
1. The health–disease distinction in humans
* The natural history of disease and factors associated with change and development. A historical view of European demography and epidemiology from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries.
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The complexity of disease causation: the BEINGS model and the distribution of disease
3. Human ecology in the twenty-first century
* Environmental changes faced by individuals and populations: climate, nutrition, demographic growth and ageing, mobility and globalisation
4. What will the populations of the twenty-first century be like?
* Ageing in the first world, expansion of populations in emerging economies, epidemiological transition in Africa and consequences of humanitarian disasters
5. Disease-related socioeconomic features of current populations
* The Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factors (GBD) 2012
6. Societies of the twenty-first century and new emerging diseases
* Models and projections. Genetic variability and its interaction with environmental change: the emergence of new diseases in the context of adaptation and natural selection.