Prevention and Control Of Environmental Hazards: A Systems Thinking Approach

Catalog description

Pre-requisites: SAAM 8016, SAAM 8120, SAAM 8119. This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to demonstrate competency in the analysis and design of public health policies for the prevention and control of environmental hazards, including biological, chemical, and physical hazards. Th rough interactive lectures, group discussion and an applied evidence-based experience, students will select and analyze an environmental hazard in Puerto Rico, using systems thinking tools with holistic and reductional approaches. Also, students will apply policy analysis skills of selected environmental hazards. Students will be able to design a public health policy to address the whole hazard components based on the following guiding principles: environmental justice, polluter-pays principle, precautionary principle, the environmental sustainability principle, and health and sustainability in all policies.