Environmental and occupational health

The industrialization leads to the contamination of the environment and our living space transgressing national borders and continents. Preventive measures in the legislation certainly could and should help to reduce this problem, which has a major public health significance.

This Module will offer the scholars an overview on current environmental problems (surface and ground water pollution, drinking water quality and supply, food and beverages contamination, community or outdoor and indoor air pollution, community noise, soil pollution, waste water treatment and disposition, solid waste treatment and disposition) and proposed solutions as well as national and international regulations, agreements, and ongoing negotiations.

1. Define the most important environmental problems
2. Discuss safe drinking water supply, wastewater treatment and other environmental problems at the national and international levels
3. Analyse the main outdoor and indoor air pollution sources, main contaminants (chemical, physical, and biological), and their influence on human's health
4. Present practical proposals for appropriate preventive measures
5. Describe the importance of healthy food consumption (its controlled production, safety storage, suitable transport, and distribution)
6. Recognize the most important factors that endanger the health of workers
7. Demonstrate knowledge in the history, organization, and development of occupational health
8. Describe different organizational models in environmental and occupational health