PUBH 301 - Discovering Environmental Health

3 Credits
3 lecture hours.

Discovering Environmental Health focuses on how natural and built environments affect human health by examining the impact of physical, chemical, and biological factors. Environmental health professionals are concerned with preventing diseases and illnesses by assessing and controlling environmental factors that pose a threat to human health whether it involves air quality, natural disasters, radiation, water quality, UV exposure, indoor air pollutants, climate change, healthy communities and work environments, or the effects of toxic substances. Environmental health also refers to ecosystem status/functions. Therefore, maintaining optimal ecosystem function is essential for the continued survival of all species including humans.

Offered (FALL)