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SUSTAINABILITY AND HEALTH

HLT5SAH

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Credit points: 20

Subject outline

In this unit, students will seek to address the overall question: why do we have to worry about health risks from the enviroment? Sustainability has become the short-hand expression for the long-term social and economic changes required to re-establish global ecological integrity, the foundation for the planet's life-suport systems, thus also of the health of the human population.

Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences

Credit points: 20

Subject Co-ordinator: Glenda Verrinder

Available to Study Abroad Students: Yes

Subject year level: Year Level 5 - Masters

Exchange Students: Yes

Subject particulars

Subject rules

Prerequisites: N/A

Co-requisites: N/A

Incompatible subjects: N/A

Equivalent subjects: N/A

Special conditions: N/A

Learning resources

Readings

Resource TypeTitleResource RequirementAuthor and YearPublisher
ReadingsSustainability and Health: Supporting Global Integrity in Public HealthRecommendedBrown, V., Grootjans, J., Ritchie, J., Townsend, M., Verrinder, G., (2005) edsALLEN AND UNWIN
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