Block, Sonja and Kerzel, Sebastian and Harner, Susanne and Leitzmann, Michael and Puppe, Linda and Jochem, Carmen (2025) Co-developing a planetary health module for pediatrics: a student-led initiative with peer teaching and evaluation of planetary health literacy. PUBLIC HEALTH, 246: 105829. ISSN 0033-3506, 1476-5616
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Objectives: The aim of the study was to co-develop and implement a student-driven, interactive, and competence-based planetary health education (PHE) module on climate-sensitive health counselling (CSHC) in pediatrics and to evaluate pediatric planetary health literacy among medical students at a medical faculty in Germany. Study design: This is a mixed methods study with a qualitative co-developing process of a teaching intervention in the pediatric curriculum of medical students and a pre-post evaluation. The questionnaires assessed whether the module could enhance students' planetary health literacy and evaluated its didactic design. Methods: A teaching module titled "Child Health in Times of Planetary Crises" was co-developed, integrating insights from interviews with pediatricians practicing CSHC. Measurable learning objectives were created using Bloom's taxonomy. The module included an online course and a seminar that applied CSHC in pediatric scenarios, focussing on preventive and adaptive consultation. Pre-and post-course questionnaires assessed planetary health literacy, covering knowledge, understanding, and self-assessed competence, along with feedback on the course design. Statistical analysis included paired t-tests, Pearson correlations, and median comparisons. Results: Students rated the module as "important", "interesting" and "neglected in the rest of the curriculum". Their planetary health literacy improved significantly across knowledge, comprehension of pediatrician's special responsibilities, and self-assessed competence to advise patients on adaptive and preventive measures (p < 0.01). The module's design received positive evaluation. Conclusion: The module effectively enhanced planetary health literacy among medical students. Competence-based education on medical response strategies is essential for addressing children's vulnerability to growing health risks posed by planetary crises. We recommend integrating planetary health education into discipline-specific teaching and cross-disciplinary subjects.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ; Planetary health literacy; Planetary health education; Child health; Climate-sensitive health counselling; Planetary crises |
| Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 370 Education 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin Medicine > Institut für Epidemiologie und Präventivmedizin Human Sciences > Institut für Erziehungswissenschaften > Lehrstuhl für Pädagogik III (Prof. Dr. Hans Gruber) |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Jun 2026 08:11 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Jun 2026 08:11 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/66004 |
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