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Assignment on Environmental Health

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Instructions As a public and environmental health professional, you will be expected to give a variety of presentations about your work throughout both your academic and professional careers. For this assignment, pretend that you have been asked to give a presentation to a local board of county commissioners who are deciding whether to fund local environmental health specialists at a newly created district public health agency. It is your task to influence and educate the county commissioners regarding the importance of environmental health services in this newly established public health agency. You will need to create a logical and succinct PowerPoint Presentation with a minimum of 8 slides (not counting the title and reference slides). 

Assignment on Environmental Health

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Definition of environmental health
According to WHO it is the practice and theory for
evaluating, controlling, correcting, psychosocial and
biological factors.
It is a component of public health that comprises of important
human health aspects such as quality of life that depends on
the psychosocial, biological and chemical environmental
factors.
Five major environmental health disciplines: industrial and
occupational hygiene, epidemiology, exposure science,
medicine and toxicology
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U.S. environmental health organizations
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR):
It conducts health investigations, assessments, disease and
exposure registry, toxicological profiles, emergency response,
applied research and health education
Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): providing
direction and leadership in the control and prevention of diseases.
National Environmental Health Association (NEHA): to
enhance a healthy environment by advancing professional
environmental health and protection.
Department of Energy (DOE): Promoting technological and
scientific innovation to promote cleanup of the environment
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Developing
regulations, laws and guidance to protect the environment and
human health
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Environmental health professionals hazards
Physical Hazards: E.g. light pollution, floods, vibrations,
earthquakes, temperature, extreme pressure, magnetif fields
(Al-Sharqi, 2017).
Biological: E.g. Bacteria, viruses, plants, insects, human and
animals
Chemical: toxic chemicals
Biomechanical/Ergonomic: unappropriated repetitive
movements or improperly set workplace
Psychosocial: Violence, work fatigue, stress
Safety: Tripping or slipping, equipment malfunction,
improper machine guarding
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