Course Contents

Introduction: Health and the Environment. Measuring Environmental Quality. Human Exposure and health impacts: Impact of environmental factors on health. Patterns of Illness throughout the world. Role of environmental health professionals. Nature and types of environmental hazards. Health risk assessment and management. Health and Disease Concept: Basic Human Physiology, Classification of Diseases, pathology Parasitology, Immunology. Epidemiology: Basics of epidemiology, methodology of epidemiology, Epidemiology of infectious diseases, Communicable diseases, Non-communicable diseases. Human settlement and urbanization: Hazards to Health within Urban Environment, Health and energy use, Health and development, Health indicators. Industrial pollution and health issues. Basic concept of Occupational Health. Trans-boundary and global health concerns: Trans-boundary movement of Industrial waste, Global Chemical Contamination, impact of climate change on human health. Personal hygiene and health food. Air, Water and sanitation. PRACTICALS 1. Designing questionnaires for descriptive epidemiological studies. 2. To study the level of occurrence of various diseases among families of low and high/middle income groups. 3. To measure the obesity using the body mass index, waist to hip ratios and waist to height ratios in students. 4. To measure blood pressure levels of students. 5. To study and compare the modes of transport generally used in urban and rural areas for the identification of associated hazards. 6. To study various ecto parasites. 7. To study various endo parasites. 8. To prepare a checklist of various health indicators related with housing. 9. To study the health and safety conditions at different workplaces.