Base Knowledge
It is recommended that the student has already acquired skills in all curricular units, namely in the areas that will have practical intervention within this curricular unit.
Teaching Methodologies
The teaching will be supervised by professionals in the field, working, who collaborate with ESTeSC-IPC and with the course of Environmental Health. Students should apply the theoretical, theoretical-practical and practical knowledge, skills and competences acquired during the course, using scientific terminology properly, in a professional environment.
Learning Results
The student must acquire knowledge of:
Performance of the Environmental Health professional in the field, namely and in particular in the areas of:
-Occupational Health
-Public health
– food safety
-Environment
-Health promotion
The student must acquire skills to:
That, with autonomy, perform the functions of an Environmental Health professional
The student must acquire skills to:
To be recognized as an Environmental Health professional in its different valences
Program
– Collaborate in health surveillance actions and monitoring of biophysical environmental factors through systematic observation and measurement actions, with a view to identifying, preventing and correcting risk factors for health.
– Contribute to the planning and implementation of health education and environmental education actions aimed at specific groups, at risk or the community in general.
– Collaborate in the promotion of training/information for workers and other stakeholders in the workplace.
– Collaborate in the technical coordination of occupational safety and hygiene activities, ensuring the framework and technical guidance of professionals in the area of occupational safety and hygiene.
– Collaborate in the development of professional risk assessment processes.
– Contribute to the design, programming and development of prevention and protection measures in the workplace.
– Promote and verify compliance with legislation applicable to the Environmental Health area.
– Analyze professional practice in the field of Environmental Health and participate in its development.
Curricular Unit Teachers
Internship(s)
SIM
Bibliography
Main bibliography (avaiable in the library):
PEÑA CASTIÑEIRA, Francisco J. – Manual de saúde ambiental. Santiago de Compostela: Edicións Lea, D. L.
1997. 180 p.. ISBN 84-89947-10-4
FRUMKIN, Howard, ed. lit. – Environmental health : from global to local. 2nd ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass,
cop. 2010. lvii, 1221 p. . ISBN 978-0-470-40487-4
FRIIS, Robert H. – Essentials of environmental health. 2nd ed. Burlington: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2012.
442 p. ISBN 978-0-7637-7890-3
MAXWELL, Nancy Irwin – Understanding environmental health: how we live in the world. 2nd ed. Burlington: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2014. IX, 405 p. ISBN 978-1-4496-4770-4
YASSI , Annalee [et al.] – Basic environmental health. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xi,
441 p. ISBN 978-0-19-513558-9
MIGUEL, Alberto Sérgio S. R. ; VASCONCELOS, J. Francisco – Manual de higiene e segurança do trabalho. 13ª edição. Porto: Porto Editora, 2014. 480 p. ISBN 978-972-0-01896-0.
ROXO, Manuel M. – Segurança e saúde do trabalho: avaliação e controlo de riscos. 2ª ed. Coimbra: Almedina, 2006. 210 p. ISBN 978-972-022734.
GRANDJEAN, Etienne – Manual de ergonomia: adaptando o trabalho ao homem. 4ª ed. Porto Alegre: Artmed, 2004. 338 p. ISBN 85-7307-353-5.
Secundary bibliography:
DIAS, José Eduardo Figueiredo (2006) – Legislação Ambiental (Sistematizada e Comentada), Coimbra Editora;
FREITAS, Luis Conceição; Manual de Segurança e Saúde do Trabalho; 4ª Edição, Edições Silabo 2019
FERREIRA, Francisco A. Gonçalves, Moderna Saúde Publica; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa 1990
NOTAS TÉCNICAS DA ANPC
Legislation
It is also recommended that students consult the bibliography indicated in the various curricular units, according to the internship area.