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EHT 111 Introduction to Environmental Health

ND1 levelMedical & Health Sciences19 topics

EHT 111 covers 19 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Concepts of health, environment and environmental health
  2. Components of environment
  3. Principles and scope of environmental health
  4. Environmental health problems in the community
  5. Roles of environmental health personnel
  6. Determinants of health and disease
  7. Relationship between environment and human health
  8. Community environmental health services
  9. Types and components of environment
  10. Components of environmental health services
  11. Environmental sanitation policy components
  12. Environmental health hazards and their classification
  13. Air, water and soil pollution
  14. Wastewater types, sources and disposal
  15. Solid waste disposal methods
  16. Excreta disposal methods in communities
  17. Insecticides and injurious arthropods
  18. Vectors of public health importance
  19. Vector control methods

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One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Concepts of health, environment and environmental health

Health, environment, and environmental health are interlinked concepts that form the foundation of environmental health science. Mastering the definitions and the ways in which environmental factors influence health is essential for answering exam questions on risk assessment, public health interventions, and policy formulation.

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