BEOH 624 :ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ON HUMAN HEALTH

The course looks at how health is affected by environmental factors. It is organized under four subheadings: ECOLOGY AND HEALTH (e.g. ecological Systems and Interactions, man’s Impact on Ecological Systems, climatic changes and effects on Health, health Considerations of Ecology, etc.); MICROBES AND PARASITES (e.g. classification of biological organisms of health importance, introduction to cell biology, introduction to immunology, modes of transmission of pathogens, new concepts in biology and their applications in public health, etc.) and PHYSICO-CHEMICAL AGENTS (e.g. particulate matter such as dust, ultra-fine particles, oxides of organic and inorganic compounds, noise, etc.)