Palmeiro-Silva, YK;
Ferrada, MT;
Flores, JR;
Cruz, ISS;
(2021)
Climate Change and Environmental Health in Undergraduate Health Degrees in Latin America.
Revista de Saude Publica
, 55
, Article 17. 10.11606/S1518-8787.2021055002891.
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Analyze the incorporation of climate change and environmental health courses in the curriculum grids of Medicine, Nursing, Nutrition and Clinical Psychology undergraduate courses in Latin American universities. METHODS: Descriptive and cross-sectional document review. Curriculum grids of the top ten Latin American universities were analyzed according to the rankings of QS Latin American University 2020, Times Higher Education World University 2020 and Academic Ranking of World Universities 2019. The presence of courses related to climate change and environmental health was sought in each curriculum grid. RESULTS: 104 of the 161 universities included in the study offered Medicine courses, 93 Nursing courses, 77 Nutrition courses and 118 Clinical Psychology courses. Most of the curriculum grids incorporated courses in public health and/or epidemiology (more than 70%); however, between 22% and 41% included courses on environmental health, and only one curriculum grid had a course on climate change in Medicine and Nursing (1%). CONCLUSIONS: Courses on climate change and environmental health have been scarcely introduced in the curriculum grids of the health field in Latin American universities. This could weaken the important role that health professionals play in providing health care to the population.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Climate Change and Environmental Health in Undergraduate Health Degrees in Latin America |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.11606/S1518-8787.2021055002891 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.11606/s1518-8787.2021055002891 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original author and source are credited.http://www.rsp.fsp.usp.br/ |
| Keywords: | Climate change, Higher education institutions, Schools, Health occupations, Curriculum, Latin America |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10146743 |
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