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The Biology of Water and Health | OECx on edX | Course About Video

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About this course
This course from Tufts University examines increasingly critical water-related issues through a distinctly global and interdisciplinary lens.

In Part 1 of the course, you will explore the multi-faceted ways in which water and human health are interrelated, including the influence of waterborne pathogens on public health and the central role of water quantity and quality in preserving health through adequate sanitation and hygiene.  

The unique interdisciplinary approach of this course gives the general public, as well as health professionals in a variety of fields, a provocative introduction to the public health and human engineering components involved in the provision of safe water and sanitation. It provides an interdisciplinary framework for understanding the place of water in health policy and engineering by helping participants give informed voice to the ways in which water is involved in social interactions, belief systems, and the economics of an increasingly interconnected and interdependent world.

Part 2 of this course, focusing on creating sustainable interventions for safe water, will begin on Tuesday, September 29, 2015.

This course is the first in a 2-part series that will be offered in 2014-2015 by Tufts University. All course content is openly licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. After the conclusion of the course, materials will be available through edX as well on the Tuft University Open Courseware website.

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