CHAPTER 1: Introduction of Environmental Health

CHAPTER 1: Introduction of Environmental Health

  What is definition of Environmental, Health and Environmental health?

 The definition of environmental is it divided by physiology, biological, social cultural which are influence health status. It also relates to individual human’s surroundings.

   Health is not-merely free from disease or disability in aspects of all the physical, mental and social life. Health also depends on the resources and hazards on its surroundings.

   Definition of Environmental Health which are concerned in all aspects such as the physical, chemical and biological factors that related to human behaviours.

   Health is totally depends on the resources and the hazards, for example, good health is depends on the accessibility to sustainable resources (etc. clinic and hospital that is available at the neighbourhood) and bad health is due from inaccessibility to sustainable resources or that had been expose to a hazardous substance.

    Next there are 4 types of environmental elements which are chemical (air pollution, toxic waste and industrial discharges), physical (traffic, radiation and noise), biological (bacteria, microbes and animals) and psychosocial (beliefs, habit and religion).

   Finally, the determinants of health status of individuals and population are determined by the personal, social, economic and environmental factors. There are some example of key determinants of health which are :

  

 (Source from http://www.enfield.gov.uk/healthandwellbeing/info/56/introduction/115/introduction)

  The conclusion is the quality of health is totally depends on the environment either good or poor the environment, it both might affect people health. The change on health status might influence the individual automatically in the community. 

(All these points were based from my lecture's note named Encik Mohd Jamalil Azam and I did not own of his note's point)