Topic outline
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Welcome to the SOPHEA Planetary Health Education Toolbox!
Planetary Health focuses on the connections between the planetary crises (climate, biodiversity, pollution) and health with the aim to foster transformative action for planetary health to create a safe and just space for current and future live on this planet.
Planetary Health Education (PHE) has been rapidly expanding across the globe with various courses, lectures, webinars, and academic initiatives emerging.
The SOPHEA project (Strengthening One and Planetary Health in Eastern Africa) strives to support Planetary Health Education (PHE), research and community engagement. It is a collaboration between the University of Würzburg (Germany), Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza (Tanzania), and University of Eldoret (Kenia) with many additional partners and collaborators.
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Changing climate and environmental conditions modify the ecological habitat and with it the suitability for the transmission of many water-borne, air-borne, food-borne, and vector-borne pathogens. Beside an increase in the incidence of for example hepatitis, viral gastroenteritis and cholera, vectors transmitting disease such as malaria, dengue fever, and Lyme disease are on the rise globally with prolonged transmission periods and spread to new geographical areas. Shifts in the prevalence of infectious diseases not only reflect the effects of temperature, humidity and other weather-related phenomena on pathogens, vectors and animal hosts, but are also part of a nexus of social and environmental factors influenced by climate change, including land use, migration and vector control
This category provides a selection of educational material as overview to climate sensitive infectious diseases on the one hand and a planetary health lens to specific infectious diseases relevant to the East African context, such as Schistosomiasis. This will enable users to expand on the classic view and understanding of infectious diseases towards other related aspects, such as fertilizer use, eutrophication, changes in the lake ecosystems, and connections with population growth and consumption patterns.
Learning objectives:
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Learners will be able to apply a planetary health lens to climate sensitive infectious diseases.
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Learners will be able to outline the context-specific challenges of infectious diseases arising from the planetary crisis and will be able to identify adaption measures.
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