ENST 233 Introduction to Environmental Health

This course examines the impact that environmental factors such as air, water and food have on human health and well-being, and how people influence the quality of their environment. Students will learn about how human evolution and prosperity results in challenges associated with pollution, overpopulation, health economics, environmental policy, and other issues. Environmental health tools, such as epidemiology, toxicology, policy, and regulation will be applied to current issues of concern.

Credits

3

Hours Weekly

3

Course Objectives

1. Describe examples of external factors (whether physical, chemical, biological, or cultural) in our environment that can potentially cause disease.
2. Identify the human activities that modify the environment in such a way as to decrease the health of humans exposed to these degraded environments.
3. Define the steps involved in risk management, the value of risk assessment, and the potentially confounding effects of risk perception.
4. Identify factors that make some human populations more susceptible to environmental health hazards than others.

Course Objectives

1. Describe examples of external factors (whether physical, chemical, biological, or cultural) in our environment that can potentially cause disease.
2. Identify the human activities that modify the environment in such a way as to decrease the health of humans exposed to these degraded environments.
3. Define the steps involved in risk management, the value of risk assessment, and the potentially confounding effects of risk perception.
4. Identify factors that make some human populations more susceptible to environmental health hazards than others.