PUH 5305 Concepts of Environmental Health

1. Discuss the direct and indirect human, ecological, and safety effects of major environmental and occupational agents.
2. Elaborate on the genetic, physiologic, and psychosocial factors that affect susceptibility to adverse health outcomes following exposure to environmental hazards.
3. Examine federal and state regulatory programs, guidelines, and authorities that control environmental health issues.
4. Identify approaches for assessing, preventing, and controlling environmental hazards that pose risks to human health and safety.
5. Identify environmental risk assessment methods and discuss risk management and risk communication approaches in relation to issues of environmental justice and equity.
6. Explain the general mechanisms of toxicity in eliciting a toxic response to various environmental exposures.
7. Identify and investigate environmental and occupational safety and health hazards (including but not limited to biological, chemical, physical, mechanical, and psychological hazards) that have the potential to lead to adverse health outcomes.
8. Critically evaluate and discuss peer-reviewed scientific articles, current events, and popular literature on environmental health issues at a regional, national, and global level.
9. Examine the role of environmental health principles in the detection and response to bio-terrorism, pandemics, disasters, and emergency preparedness/response activities.

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