Introduction to Environmental Health

Knowledge compatible with the profile of a candidate for a degree in environmental health.

An active methodology will be used, placing the student at the center of the learning process.

STEAM methodology – working in an interdisciplinary way so that all concepts make sense, developing the student’s skills and competences.

Therefore, practical work, individual and team projects, seminars and study visits in the work environment are valued.

Whenever possible, participation/organization in activities/events framed in the themes of the Curricular Unit will be promoted.

Objectives:

• Raise awareness and promote the acquisition of knowledge about the scope and importance of the intervention of the Environmental Health Technician, in nowadays and in the future.

• Facilitate identification with the profession of Environmental Health Technician, through the analysis of its history and understanding of the contexts and conditions of action.

Aptitudes

•      Proactivity
•      Effective communication
•      Autonomy
•      Ability to work in a team
•      Integrity
•      Respect for ethical principles
•      Cultivating a healthy relationship with the people you interact with
•      Adaptability

Skills to Develop:

• To envisage the performance of identification activities, characterization of risk factors for health originated in the environment, aiming to participate in the planning of Environmental Health actions, with the objective of preventing disease and promoting health.
• Provide for health control and surveillance actions of systems, structures and activities with interaction in the environment, fundamentally in the areas that are consigned within the scope of the work of Environmental Health Technicians.
• Understand the relationships between human health and the environment in a health, political, economic and cultural context.

Introduction to the Study of Environmental Health

– Environmental Health as an area of ​​Public Health

– Public Health and Environment

– Environmental Health and the new challenges

– Basic notions of environmental and professional law
• Basic sanitary protection and the fight against means and agents of disease transmission, which includes sanitary surveillance of water and waste systems and actions aimed at food hygiene;

 • Specific health protection against risk factors linked to manufacturing, which includes health surveillance of the release of pollutants, actions aimed at identifying, evaluating and reducing risk factors for health resulting from environmental pollution;

 • Habitat Hygiene and the promotion of human and rural health, health opinions regarding the licensing of establishments, the location of projects for spaces for collective use and cemeteries, sanitary surveillance of establishments and spaces for collective use, industrial and agricultural establishments. livestock and the fight against means and agents of disease transmission;

 • Hygiene of foodstuffs and establishments of the consumption protection system, which includes health opinions on projects for establishments for the production and sale of foodstuffs, as well as the promotion of control actions for these types of food;

 • Occupational Health, surveillance and control of the environment and safety of workplaces;

 • School Health, promotion and maintenance of hygiene and safety in school establishments;

 • Health education, promotion of primary environmental protection and education for the health of populations.

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Primary Bibliography

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