Basics of environmental healthLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

You know what the most common harmful substances impacting human health are.
You can evaluate different environmental factors which impact human health.
You know the essential mechanisms and exposure to environmental factors.
You know what kind of supervision there is in environmental health.

Content

What kind of physical, chemical and biological environmental factors are there and how do they impact human health?
Through what kind of exposure, ie food, air or water, do environmental factors affect human health?

Which authorities monitor factors that affect human health?

How to report on activities causing health hazards?

Evaluation

Students can
a. use professional vocabulary systematically.
b. look for information in the key information sources of the field.
c. identify interrelated tasks.
d. work together with customers, users and target groups.

Materials

Health protection, Basics of residential health