Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	Tıbbi Jeoloji
	English	Medical Geology
Course Code	JEO 437	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		Turkish
Course Coordinator		Yüksel Örgün Tutay Yüksel Örgün Tutay
Course Objectives		Recently, determinations of geological factors in order to develop health living conditions have gotten significant amount attention. In that frame, medical geology has been a main class in geology education in the world. Therefore, this class should be in geology program as well in order to not only providing new job position to our students but also following the new trends in geology education in the world. In the proposed class which will include the subjects from medical geology, geological factors and their influence on human health will be taking up, methods of medical geology will be introduced, and use of applied medical geology results in economy and health care will be explained.
Course Description		General information about health. History, subject, goal, task and significance of medical geology, Environment of life and geological environment, Basic features of the geological environment, Characteristics of geological factors and their influence on human health The geography of disease (Nosogeography), Subject and tasks of geological and medical disciplines in defining quality of the environment and its influence on human health, Methods of medical geology, Use of applied medical geology results in economy and health care.
Course Outcomes		I. Recognition content of Medical Geology II. Recognition Environment of life and geological environment III. Recognition characteristics of geological factors and their influence on human health IV. Evaluation and interpretation the geography of disease (Nosogeography) V. Recognition methods of medical geology VI. Evaluation and interpretation medical geology results VII. Team work
Pre-requisite(s)		no
Required Facilities		Textbooks, periodicals, symposium proceedings
Other		Web pages of related institutions
Textbook		Medical Geology – Effects of Geological Environments on Human Health Elsevier. Miomir M. Komatina (2004),
Other References		1- Olle Selinus, Brian Alloway, Jose A. Centeno, Robert B. Finkelman, Ron Fuge, Ulf Lindh & Pauline Smedly (2005), Essentials of Medical Geology, Impacts of the Natural Environment on Public Health, Elsevier Academic Press. 2-Selinus O, Finkelman RB, Centeno JA. (2006), Human Health and Ecosystems. In Geology and Ecosystems (Zektser IS, Marker B, Ridgway J, Rogachevskaya L, and Vartanyan G, editors), Springer, ISBN 0-387-29292-6, Part IV, 2006. 3-Finkelman RB, Centeno JA, Selinus O., (2006), Medical Geology – The Emergence of a New Discipline. Terra 4- Miomir M. Komatina (2004), Medical Geology – Effects of Geological Environments on Human Health Elsevier. 5- H. Catherine W. Skinner and Antony R. Berger, (2003), Geology and Health, Oxford University Pres

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