Bachelor in Environmental Health

This cycle of studies aims to develop in the student human, intellectual, scientific and technical skills in the area of his competence, promoting skills necessary for the execution of tasks and problem solving that are compatible with his professional practice, developing an attitude and sense of responsibility to the community and other professionals. The graduate will be qualified, in multidisciplinary teams, to act in the environmental sanitary control, is up to him to detect, identify, analyze, prevent and correct environmental and occupational risks to health current or potential, caused by natural or anthropogenic phenomena. It is intended that the graduate acquires skills enabling him to evaluate critically the information collected, synthesizing and integrating the knowledge consistently and communicating in a clear, precise and assertive way, taking into account the sociocultural mean in which it operates, and should use on his arguments technical fundamentals and legal.

The national contest of access to public higher education, with admission exams in the following sets: 02 Biology and Geology or 07 Physics and Chemistry or 16 Mathematics. For the application is required the minimum rating of 95 points, in the admission test and application note, expressed on a scale of 0 to 200 points. The formula for calculating comprises 65% of the high school average and 35% of admission test. Regional preference corresponds to 20% of the vacancies, within the area of influence of Aveiro, Castelo Branco, Coimbra, Guarda, Leiria and Viseu.

The completion of the degree’s syllabus on Environmental Health entitles the admission to the profession of Environmental Health technician regulated by Decree-Law 320/99 of 11 of August.
The professional card shall be required to the Ministry of Health through the CAHS (Central Administration of the Health System).

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Are learning objectives of the degree in Environmental Health develop human, intellectual, scientific and technical skills in the area of its competence, promoting skills necessary for the execution of tasks and problem solving that are compatible with their professional practice, developing an attitude and sense of responsibility to the community and other professionals. The graduate in environmental health will be enabled to act in environmental sanitation control, detect, identify, analyze, prevent and correct environmental and occupational risks to health, current or potential, caused by natural or anthropogenic phenomena. It is intended that the graduate develop skills that enable it to evaluate critically the information collected, synthesizing and integrating knowledge coherently and communicating in a clear, precise and assertive way, taking into account the sociocultural mean they act, using arguments and technical and legal foundations.

The graduate degree allows the application to postgraduate studies.