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- Title
Benefits of a Study Abroad Element in the Environmental Health Curriculum.
- Authors
Ryan, Timothy J.
- Abstract
Most populations now derive benefits as well as risks from a global economy. Local environmental health can be impacted positively through importation or adoption of foreign technological advances, administrative approaches, and cultural attributes, to name only a few. Similarly, risks are now commonly shared on an international scale, as illustrated by cross-border food source contamination, emerging or recognized disease spread, unchecked international pollution, and a host of other incidents in recent years. Beyond the case study, historical record of the textbook approach, affordable study abroad programs now exist to more concretely educate students about such impacts. Once considered simply a perquisite for more financially able students, or a requirement for language arts students, both short- and full-term study abroad programs increasingly add a necessary global perspective to the college environmental health graduate. This special report details the ways in which a number of accredited programs are using and integrating study abroad experiences into their curriculums to better prepare their graduates to meet the international environmental health and safety challenges of the 21st century.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ENVIRONMENTAL health; INFECTIOUS disease transmission; CURRICULUM; EXCHANGE of persons programs; FOOD contamination; POLLUTION; WORLD health
- Publication
Journal of Environmental Health, 2017, Vol 80, Issue 1, p30
- ISSN
0022-0892
- Publication type
Article