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ENV 550

Community Environmental Health
Name: Community Environmental Health
Course Number: ENV 550
Credit(s): 3

Course Description

This course provides comprehensive insights into fundamental topics in environmental and occupational health, covering aspects such as air pollution, water pollution, solid and hazardous waste, and environmental health law and ethics. The focus is on understanding the community-level implications of these environmental and occupational health factors.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Recognize the major health problems associated with the global, ambient, occupational, and indoor environments.
  • Describe the direct and indirect human, ecological, and safety effects of major environmental and occupational agents.
  • Develop skills in analyzing and effectively communicating environmental health issues.
  • Explain how gender, race, poverty, history, migration, and culture influence interventions within public health systems, with a specific emphasis on the environment.
  • Illustrate the measurable changes in public health systems, including input, processes, and output, with a focus on environmental health.
  • Analyze the inter-relationships among systems that impact the quality of life in communities.

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