Question

1. Read HealthyPeople's overview of Environmental Health and review its OBJECTIVES.

2. Choose 1 EH Objective. Why is this objective important to you? Give an example of an environmental health project of an organization that you think can help HealthyPeople reach the objective you have chosen.

Answer 1

1.Environmental Health is a branch of public health concerned with monitoring or mitigating those factors in the environment that affect human health and disease.

OR

Environmental health is the branch of public health concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment affecting human health.

OBJECTIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

Major objective of environmental health is to improve the quality of the life of an individual by bringing changes in the environment in which the individual lives like

Improving outdoor air quality   

Water quality

Toxins and waste

Helthy homes and healthy communities

2.The objective that i choose is improving outdoor air quality

Importance

Now-a-days air pollution is one of the major issues the whole world is facing it is mainly caused due to over usage of vechicles that in turn is burning fossil fuel and relesing toxic gases in to environment.In some cities of the world that toxins reached to a level that individuals need to wear a protection to step out of the house.

Example of a project based on air pollution is ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH(FOCUS ON AIR POLLUTION) by SAI Phillippines(2017-2019).

Major goal of this project is to study

Status of air pollution worldwide

Effects of air pollution on health

Develop some goals to be achieved to improve the quality of air .