310443 (v.1) Environmental Threats to the Health of Children 682
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Area: | School of Public Health |
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Credits: | 25.0 |
Contact Hours: | 5.0 |
Laboratory: | 1 x 5 Hours Weekly |
Syllabus: | Specific environmental exposures including air pollution, air toxics, bioaerosols, persistent toxic substances, and heavy metals. The important role of exposure to poor water quality, poor sanitation and hygiene and the compounding effects of poverty and malnutrition. Specific adverse effects in children caused by environmental exposures, including infectious disease, respiratory diseases and allergies, childhood cancers, neurobehavioural and developmental disorders, endocrine disorders and reproductive health effects. |
Field of Education: | 061303 Environmental Health |
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: | Fully Online *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information |
Result Type: | Grade/Mark |
Availability
Year | Location | Period | Internal | Partially Online Internal | Area External | Central External | Fully Online |
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2011 | Bentley Campus | Semester 2 | Y |
Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External