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12 hours

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HEALTHY URBAN SYSTEMS - PART 1
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HEALTHY URBAN SYSTEMS - PART 1
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Highlights

  • Earn a certificate from
    University of Lausanne
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  • November 2023
  • 4 assignments
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HEALTHY URBAN SYSTEMS - PART 1
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Course details

What are the course deliverables?
  • What you'll learn
  • Address urban health through complex multidisciplinary approaches
  • Use multidimensional and multiscale concepts, methods and ecosystem frameworks
  • Mobilize and support all players directly or indirectly involved in urban health
More about this course
  • Welcome to an immersive exploration of Urban Health Systems with our expertly developed MOOC, specifically designed for professionals and enthusiasts in Urban Health. This inaugural part of our MOOC series (consisting in 3 MOOCs) launches you into a comprehensive 4-week journey, navigating through multidisciplinary frameworks and analytical observations crucial to understanding urban health complexities.
  • Attain 2 ECTS credits as you explore pivotal themes, including urbanization-planetary health connections and a Health in All approach.
  • Module 1 solidifies foundational knowledge of systemic approaches and key urban health issues, whereas Module 2 enhances your observational and analytical skills, introducing GIS, data stewardship, and innovative AI tools.
  • The MOOC culminates with the creation of a systemic flow chart, ensuring a practical, applied understanding, thereby facilitating informed decision-making towards realizing sustainable, health-oriented urban environments. Engage in a profound learning journey where theoretical knowledge harmoniously meets practical application, sculpting the future of Urban Health Systems.
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Curriculum

Week 1 - INTRODUCTION

General introduction to the MOOC

Course introduction

Instructor's list

GLOSSARY

Week 1 - MODULE 1 A : A MULTIDISCIPLINARY FRAMEWORK FOR URBAN HEALTH SYSTEMS - PART1

1.1.1 Introduction to Module 1 - multidisciplinary approach

1.1.2 Introduction to to planetary Health and urbanization

1.1.3. Reflections on Planetary health and Urbanization

1.1.4. Historical perspectives of wellbeing and human health into urban context

1.2.1 Introduction about Collaborative approach as a Complex System

1.2.2 Reflection of Urbanization on Urban Health in Developing Countries

1.2.3 Urban Health in Developing Countries: BAU Urban Lab as a model in systems approach

References

GLOSSARY

Quiz for 1.1 and 1.2

Urban Health and Planetary Health in a Real-Life City

Week 2 - MODULE 1 B : A MULTIDISCIPLINARY FRAMEWORK FOR URBAN HEALTH SYSTEMS - PART2

1.3.1 Introduction about Healthy Urban Systems

1.3.2 Risk Governance: A Generic Framework

1.3.3 Systemic Risks

1.3.4 The Application of a Framework of Healthy Urban Systems: the Example of Housing and Climate Change

1.3.5 Conclusion / Synthesis Module 1

References

GLOSSARY

Quiz for 1.3

Urban Health and Planetary Health in a Real-Life City

Week 3 - MODULE 2 A : OBSERVING URBAN HEALTH - PART 1

2.1.1 Introduction: Observation for who? For what?

2.1.2 Multi-dimensions and multi-scales of observation: some examples

2.1.3 Observing multidimensional health issues in cities

2.2.1 Traditional and new data collections

2.2.2 Analysing satellite images with machine learning

2.2.3 Temporal data collection: dynamic data and cohorts

2.2.4 Temporality of data collection: the use of cohorts

2.2.5 Stewardship, availability and privacy issues

References

GLOSSARY

Quiz for 2.1 and 2.2

Interacting factors of Urban Health and their levels

Week 4 - MODULE 2 B : OBSERVING URBAN HEALTH - PART 2

2.3.1 Delineating city systems

2.3.2 Analyses and representations

2.3.3 Multilevel approaches / the ecological fallacy

2.4.1 Elaborating data frameworks

2.4.2 Entry points of urban health

2.4.3 Assets-based approaches

2.4.4 Conclusion / synthesis Module 2

References

GLOSSARY

Quiz for 2.3 and 2.4

Spatial scales, entry points and interoperability

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