Industrialization, Human Health, and the Environment

Catalog description

In this online workshop, students learn how to perform a qualitative human health risk assessment for a given group of people living or working in a given setting somewhere in the United States. They do so in part with the help of information about the nature and sources of human health risks made public under U.S. environmental and occupational safety and health laws. In the process, students also explore the human health implications of a broad array of environmental hazards associated with life in an industrialized society. They do so in part using perspectives informed by systems thinking.