College Student Knowledge and Attitudes Related to Sustainability Education and Environmental Health

Environmental Health Education (EHE) and Sustainability Education (SE) go hand in hand with promoting environmentally sustainable and healthy attitudes and behaviors. Initiatives, legislation and recommendations issued by international organizations and public administrations, which do not always reach the citizenry adequately, have proliferated. Both disciplines have an interdisciplinary, even transdisciplinary, character, and involve numerous professionals with very diverse initial college preparation. The research presented was carried out with students from various branches of knowledge at the University of Granada. Specifically, they were students from the fields of social sciences and health sciences (n = 428). Survey methodology was employed by building an ad hoc instrument combining Likert-type items, 5-value Environmental Health Education (EHE) and Sustainability Education (SE) scales and multiple-option items. SE deals with environmental, social and economic spheres. Reliability and validity tests (content and construct) were performed on the questionnaire. The results allow identifying the knowledge and attitudes of the college students in Granada, in the aforementioned fields, contributing relevant data in regard to future interventions relating to sustainability and environmental health.