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What Are Environmental & Occupational Health?
Environmental health is the study of how environmental factors can harm human health and how to identify, prevent, and control these effects. The field concerns itself with:
- maintaining a safe supply of food and drinking water
- discovering the mechanisms of environmentally related diseases
- treating and disposing of solid and toxic wastes
- reducing air, water , food, and noise pollution
- controlling workplace hazards.
The World Health Organization defines occupational health as:
- the promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of physical, mental and social well being of workers in all occupations
- the prevention among workers of departures from health caused by their working conditions
- the protection of workers in their employment from risks resulting from factors adverse to health
- the placing and maintenance of the workers in an occupational environment adapted to his physiological and psychological equipment