Module 8, Track 7: Climate Change and Health
Description
This module will introduce learners to the concepts of climate change, its causes, impacts and appropriate adaptation and mitigation strategies. It will cover the core debates that address myths peddled by climate change denialists and anti-environmentalism, as well as evolutions and distinctions between climate action and climate justice.
What you'll learn
- Understand the fundamental concepts, causes, and impacts of climate change.
- Explore key adaptation and mitigation strategies in response to the climate crisis.
- Examine the evolution of climate action and the principles of climate justice.
- Critically analyze common myths and arguments from climate change denialists.
Curriculum
- 5 Sections
- 5 Lessons
- 2 Days
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- Session 1This session explores the complex and multidimensional relationship between climate change and health. It examines how climate change affects human health directly and indirectly, through changes in environmental factors, social systems, and human behaviors.1
- Session 2This session explores how climate change affects the transmission and distribution of infectious diseases and climate-sensitive diseases, such as malaria, dengue, cholera, zoonoses, and vector-borne diseases. It also discusses the potential adaptation and mitigation measures to prevent and control these diseases in a changing climate.1
- Session 3This session will explore the nexus between climate change and biodiversity loss, and the effect of climate change on people with pre-existing mental health problems. The learners will also be exposed to the substantial co-benefits for mental health coming from climate and environmental action.1
- Session 4This session analyzes how climate change disproportionately affects the health and well-being of certain groups of people, such as children, women, the elderly, indigenous peoples, migrants, and refugees.1
- Session 5This session will focus on the growing recognition that policy decisions in multiple sectors are essential to building more resilient, “well-being” societies.3
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