What is Environmental Health?
Environmental health is the science and practice of preventing human injury and illness as well as promoting well being through:
- Identifying and evaluation environmental sources and hazardous agents
- Limiting exposures to hazardous physical, chemical and biological agents in air, water, soil, food and other environmental media or settings
- Minimizing ecological impacts that maintain ecological balances essential to long-term human health and the environment
Environmental Health Programs May Include:
- Food Protection
- Onsite Wastewater System Installation and Repair
- Drinking Water Quality
- Air Quality
- Hazardous and Solid Waste
- Childcare Sanitation
- Recreational Water Quality
- Tattoo and Body Piercing Sanitation
- Zoonotic Diseases (West Nile Virus, Plague, Relapsing Fever, HantaVirus, etc.)
- Disaster Sanitation/Emergency Response
- Land Use
- Built Environment
