MPH307: Introduction to Environmental Health
Course Title: Introduction to Environmental Health
Course Number: MPH307
Credit Hours: 3
Introduction:
The MSPH
programme is targeted at enabling the participants to use Ongoing Research tools and
techniques applying to the study of the environment in relation to health. The course presents concepts,
principles, and applications of the main natural and social science disciplines that form the basis of
environmental health and describes how these disciplines and their practitioners interact in the
environmental health paradigm. The course examines health issues, scientific understanding of causes,
and possible future approaches to control of the major emerging environmental health problems in
industrialized and developing countries.
Learning Goal:
The overall goal of the course is to enable the participants to identify and describe the important current
and emerging environmental problems that pose risk to public health and apply the multidisciplinary
environmental health approach to their solution.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of the course the participants should be able to:
1.
Describe the core issues in Environmental Health
2.
Define the major sources and types of environmental agents
3.
Identify the carriers or vectors that promote the transfer of these agents from the environment to the
human
4.
Describe how these agents interact with biological systems, and the mechanisms by which they exert
adverse health effects
5.
Describe the existing situations and remedies in developing countries
6.
Identify and define the steps in the risk-assessment and risk-management processes
7.
Describe the sources, pathways of exposure and methods of control of the principal physical,
chemical, biologic and psychosocial hazards that impact human health in ambient, indoor and
occupational environments.
8.
Explain the processes associated with the translation of scientific and health data into public health
policy and environmental law.
9.
Identify and describe important current and emerging environmental problems that pose a risk to
public health
