SOC 08599 - Urban Environmental Health

Credits: 3

This course examines a broad range of factors affecting public health in urban environments within the context of essential formal public health infrastructures and informal settlements. An in-depth analysis of how increased exposures of industrial toxins, sanitation, air and water quality, poverty, geographic dispersion and how social environments place stress on city inhabitants collectively affect a city’s health, as well as how these cities can respond to meet the increased challenges will be explored.

Course Attributes: GCAT, GRAD
Academic Department: Sociology & Anthropology