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Course description

Health issues are often complex or 'wicked'. This means that the issues cannot be easily addressed or managed using one discipline, training or approach. Instead, many ways of thinking, understanding and knowing are required: from economics to medicine to psychology to environmental science. This new course (written and launched in 2020) provides a beginner's guide to exploring wicked problems in health. To ground the learning journey, this course will employ a semester-long case study of 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. Students will be exposed to a range of professionals and practitioners who will all bring their own data, training and perspective to improving health. In doing so, students studying health may identify how and where they may ultimately choose to take their future career and study.

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