Sustainable Health and Care

An interdisciplinary approach is needed to face the current, complex healthcare challenges. Today, these challenges come from as different and varied sources as climate change, lack of workforce, international interdependence (i.e. pandemics/epidemics), and socio-economic inequality. This minor is therefore grounded on three pillars: One Health, which revolves around a holistic and integrated health improvement; Population Health Management, which stresses the relevance of demographic studies and policymaking in setting up modern health services; and Sustainability, which is meant to provide the tools that students need to think about health issues in long-term perspectives.

This minor will give you different perspectives how you can develop a health system that is sustainable for humans, climate and the healthcare system. After completing the minor, you will understand the concept of One Health and its determinants, the principle of Sustainability and its critical development, as well as the organization and governance of healthcare. Students understand and critically assess the changing relationships between healthcare and sustainability. Students apply the One Health approach and test its overall sustainability through such different disciplinary perspectives as public policy, humanities, data science, law, and medicine.

At the end of the minor, you have attained the following learning outcomes:

• Students understand the principle of Sustainability and its critical development, as well as the organization and governance of healthcare.
• Students understand the concept of One Health and its determinants.
• Students understand and critically assess the changing relationships between healthcare and sustainability.
• Students apply the one health approach and test its overall sustainability through such different disciplinary perspectives as public policy, humanities, data science, law, and medicine.

For whom This minor is open to all university students and is taught in English. This minor cannot serve as a pre-master. The minor consists of 30 EC but can also be taken as a 15 EC programme.

The 15 EC programme is taught in September – November and consists of:

• Sustainability and One Health (2 EC)
• Research Methods: One Health and Sustainability (5 EC)
• Challenges in Health and Care (5 EC)
• Project case (group) (3 EC)

Admission and registration 30 EC minor You can enroll for the complete minor through EduXChange, registration is open from 1 May to 30 June.   15 EC minor You can apply for the 15 EC minor through the LUMC half minor committee: