Learning Outcomes

When you have studied this session, you should be able to:

• Define and use correctly each of the key words printed in bold.
• Briefly describe the history of hygiene and environmental health.
• Describe the significance of environmental health at community level.
• List the environmental risk factors involved in the transmission of communicable diseases.
• Describe the interactions between development and environment that affect human health.
• Explain the basic components and purpose of environmental health planning.