Relationship of surgery to preventing and treating disabling impairments in lower income countries. Focus will be on sensory impairments (blindness and deafness) and physical impairment.
Foundation to international surgery. The discussion of the global burden of unmet surgical needs and a professional response in low and middle income regions of the world.
Survey of impacts of land and resources, housing, education, criminal justice systems, child apprehension and other determinants on the health of Indigenous peoples in Canada.
Industrial hygiene and environmental exposure monitoring, methods, and instrumentation, and theory. Laboratories demonstrate workplace sampling and analysis techniques.
Experience of colonization; <i>Indian Act</i>; the histories and intergenerational impact of the residential school; child-welfare systems; communicable disease prevention; the challenge of ethical public health practice; and traditional healing.
Scientific basis for the recognition, evaluation, and control of chemical, physical, and biological, exposures; standard setting; exposure monitoring methods.
Foundational thinking giving rise to the concept of population health. Overview of the current state of research. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.