Environment and Global Health: Understanding Key Agencies, Processes, and Influences

This assessment addresses the following learning outcomes:

Describe key agencies, institutional structures, political processes, influences on and challenges for global health

Understand the way in which globalisation and the social, economic and political determinants of health influence communicable and non-communicable diseases.

Understand the relationship between health, trade and foreign policy.

Analyse the relationship between climate change and environmental risks

Understand the concept of sustainable development Analyse relationships between environmental health issues and social, economic, political and determinants of health.

1. Describe your organisation and its interest in the issue of environment and global health.

2. What is the environmental issue that has been identified by your group?

3. Where is it located?

4. What is the potential impact upon the health of the population that you have identified?

5. What are the driving forces (economic, social, political, institutional, developmental), or the social determinants behind the environmental indicator you have identified?

6. What effect is climate change (if any) likely to have on this issue?

7. What evidence-based approaches to environmental risk assessment and management of this issue do you recommend and why?

8. How is the environmental health issue currently being managed?

9. How are issues of access and equity being considered?

10. What suggestions do you propose to address gaps in current management actions and practices?

11. What suggestions do you propose to address gaps in current policy, regulation and management for this environmental health issue?

12. What critical infrastructure, legislative and regulatory measures at the federal and state level agencies will be required?

13. What role do you see for your group in the risk assessment and management of this issue?

14. What role do you see for existing health and other agencies, key stakeholders including community groups?