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Air Pollution – a Global Threat to our Health

We all have to breathe to live. But the air we breathe is polluted both outdoors and indoors. Each year, this pollution costs 7 million lives across the globe – and a lot of suffering. 1 in 8 deaths is due to air pollution. This course will provide you with an introduction to the most recent research in the field of health effects of air pollution as well as a broader understanding of sources and spread of air pollution and what we should do about it. What is air pollution? What are the sources? How and where are we exposed outdoors and indoors? What happens in the body? Which diseases are the result? Who are the most vulnerable? How can we assess the effects of air pollution? And what should we do to reach the Sustainable Development Goal to “substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution”? These are some of the important questions we will address in the course. During the course you will meet researchers and experts from the University of Copenhagen and the Technical University of Denmark. They work with different aspects of air pollution and health: toxicology, exposure assessment, epidemiology, engineering and health impact assessment. It is a global responsibility to combat the health impacts of air pollution, and this fight can only be won through new knowledge and global collaboration. We hope you will join us in the course and equip yourself to take part in this global and individual health challenge.

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Rating 4.7 based on 230 ratings
Length 4 weeks
Effort 3 weeks of study, 2-5 hours/week
Starts Jul 17 (41 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From University of Copenhagen via Coursera
Instructors Steffen Loft, Peter Møller, Zorana Jovanovic Andersen
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Language English
Subjects Social Sciences Science
Tags Social Sciences Life Sciences Medicine And Healthcare Governance And Society Public Health

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indoor and outdoor

good course good course learned a lot NICE Very good course for those who want to get an overview, and understand of critical issues of the indoor and outdoor pollution.

I am developing a thesis on indoor and outdoor air quality in my country, and this helps me a lot.

you will really enjoy during learning through this course, Thanks for this opportunity to learn more about Air pollution, I was able to understand that the different between Indoor and Outdoor pollution.

I also learn the indoor and outdoor sources of air pollution and how we mitigate it.

By Calculating AQI I can now easily find out the health effect both in indoor and outdoor air situation through this course.

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excellent , I learned a lot about this topic, and my commitment is to work on raising awareness in society very nice very important lecture to get aware about Air pollution Very useful - Good information Thankyou respected sir this course is very helpful to me and this course give me knowledge about air pollution how they harmful to us , awareness about air pollution and most important they know about diseases which is cuased by air pollution .this is course bus very helpful.

This course also gives us awareness about air pollution a nice short course with quite a lot of graphical data which helps us understand the situation globally but I would have loved the course even more if it was a bit more in detail because it touched upon a lot of topics but all of them remained a bit open-ended.

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easy to understand

I really appreciated the videos made by the professors, who explain in a way that is easy to understand.

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health effect

Gained knowledge through this practical intensive course Very informative First step to resolve the problem is to realize there is one, same with air pollution the course teaches about health effects in most detailed way paving the way toward solutions.

I found this course a very complete and justified indtroduction to air pollution, it shares very important fundamental concepts, highlighted statistics about health effects and relation with climate.

learned some of the very basic thing about pollution and health effects.

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Thank you University of Copenhagen for this.

I particularly like the University of Copenhagen, for its high technical quality, particularly in the field of health, and for the courses that are offered here at Coursera.

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Very useful course I acknowledge the resource persons efforts and pain in making this highly beneficial and most needed course for giving solutions to the evils (air pollution) present in the civilized world.

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we have to reduce the air pollution in upcomming days good very useful course Excellent Course on real-time case studies on Air Pollution and how it is affecting our lives, how we are going to face this situation and what are the measures we have to adapt to reduce this air pollution are clearly explained Nice one i would recommend to everyone .

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well as

Its very necessary that one's must know about the impact of air pollution in our daily life and this course fullfill all the basic requirements for the betterment to tackle the various causes of air pollution as well as understanding the phenomena to control those factors Very important course especially for developing country experts and professionals where air pollution issue is less focused and the national reports were not pepared.

It was a very good learning and I came to know how to protect our environment as well as ourselves from diseases which are caused by bad air quality.

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human body

Excellent and easy understable Good In these course I learn about the impact of air pollution on human body.

Various kinds of diseases occurred in human body due to air pollution such as asthma, coronary diseases, lungs cancer etc.

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An overview of related careers and their average salaries in the US. Bars indicate income percentile.

Water Pollution Biologist 1 $52k

Air Quality Analyst $54k

Junior Air Pollution Specialist $62k

Air Pollution Specialist 2 $64k

Pollution Equipment Specialist/Pollution Response Officer $65k

Sales Engineer - Air Pollution Control $68k

Air Boss $70k

On air entertainment $71k

Senior Air Pollution Specialist $73k

Environmental Engineer (Air / Air Permit) $77k

On-Air $82k

On-Air Scheduler $134k

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Rating 4.7 based on 230 ratings
Length 4 weeks
Effort 3 weeks of study, 2-5 hours/week
Starts Jul 17 (41 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From University of Copenhagen via Coursera
Instructors Steffen Loft, Peter Møller, Zorana Jovanovic Andersen
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Social Sciences Science
Tags Social Sciences Life Sciences Medicine And Healthcare Governance And Society Public Health

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