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Continuing Professional Development - MSc Programme Modules (London-based)

TROPICAL ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH (3434)

ORGANISERS: Professor Sandy Cairncross, Dr Jeroen Ensink

DATES: 20 February 2012 to 21 March 2012 (9:00am Monday to 12:30pm Wednesday)


AIM
To empower students to contribute usefully to discussion with other professionals regarding health impacts, technology choice and policy aspects of water supply, excreta disposal and other environmental interventions affecting health in the Third World.


OBJECTIVES
By the end of this module students should be able to:

  1. Hygiene behaviour assessment and hygiene promotion.
  2. Water and health; classification of diseases, case studies, health impact measurement and its alternatives.
  3. Water quality and standards; microbiological quality, chemical quality standards.
  4. Water supply technology and policy; rural water supplies, water treatment, rural water policy, tariffs, willingness-to-pay.
  5. Sanitation; excreta-related infections, low-cost technology options, system choice, implementation issues.
  6. Sewage disposal; effluent quality standards, wastewater treatment, waste re-use.
  7. Other environmental issues (on request): solid waste management, urban vectors and drainage, pest control, dams and health, food hygiene, air pollution, wastewater re-use.


TEACHING STRATEGY
Knowledge and understanding of the basic material will be derived from lectures and assigned reading. The ability to apply this knowledge in a real context will be developed through discussion of case studies and set assignments. There will be ample room for discussion. Site visits to water and sewage treatment works can be arranged if there is sufficient demand.


LEARNING TIME
The module is made up of 150 Notional Learning Hours – 68 hours contact time, 35 hours self-directed learning, and 47 hours assessment, review and revision.


ASSESSMENT
Students will be asked to write a brief critique of a real water supply, sanitation and/or hygiene promotion project from the public health point of view.

FEE

£1,600 for each module including access to LSHTM library and learning resources, study materials and assessment.

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