Knowledge
After completing the Honours certificate, you will be able to:
- Explain why our civilization continues to overexploit the planet's natural resources and why this practice is unsustainable.
- Explain how sustainable practices are important to ensure healthy lives for all humans, animals and the environment we all share.
- Appraise how anthropogenic changes to natural systems, including their close and distant causes, influence health outcomes.
- Explain different pedagogical methods for working with sustainable healthcare and passing on that knowledge to others.
- Account for the UNESCO framework for sustainability competencies and its history.
- Describe and explain the role of public health and prevention (such as prevention of non-communicable disease; epidemics; etc.) within a sustainable healthcare system – globally and nationally.
Skills
After completing the Honours certificate, you will be able to:
- Design and implement transformative solutions to Planetary Health challenges and One Health challenges using systems thinking.
- Identify, analyze and describe complex systems such as the interface between human health and the environment and their interdependence in relation to healthcare challenges.
- Utilize various pedagogical teaching methods connected to UNESCO's key competencies for sustainability.
General competence
After completing the Honours certificate, you will be able to:
- Acknowledge the interconnectedness between humans and nature as the overall objective.
- Inspire and contribute to system changes for a just and sustainable future.
- Work systematical to contribute to preventive change to support a sustainable healthcare system.