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Course description

This course is designed to introduce students to the importance of integrative thinking in the field of public health. Integrative thinking is the ability to comprehend the multitude of ways of perceiving a particular public health issue. Instead of choosing one perspective, discipline or training at the expense of another, an effective resolution often draws from a range of useful perspectives. This integrative approach is particularly important for responding to 'wicked' public health problems - ones which are highly resistant to resolution due to incomplete, contradictory, and/or changing requirements. This course will focus on human health impacts from climate change, and address it through the perspectives from medicine and epidemiology, law and governance, and health and natural resource economics. The course will introduce applicable methods of integrative thinking, including systems thinking.

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