Environmental Health

• Environmental Health

  • A branch of public health devoted to preventing illness through managing the environment and changing people's behavior to reduce exposure to biological agents of disease and injury.
  • Practice covers the assessment, correction, control and prevention of environmental elements that can adversely affect human health.
• Traditional Hazard :  related to poverty and insufficient development

  •  Tuberculosis
  •  Malaria
  •  Dengue
  •  Schistosomiasis
  •  Filariasis
• Modern Hazard : related to rapid development that lack of health and environment safeguards

  Communicable Disease

  •  SARS/COVID-19
  •  Avian Flu
  •  HIV/AIDS

  Non-Communicable Disease

  •  Hypertension
  •  Diabetes
  •  COPD
• Environmental Sanitation

  • The control of every factors in the physical environment such as water, air, soil, excretal and food as well as insect/rodent, chemical, solid and liquid wastes which have a significant effect on the physical development, health and survival