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Environmental health

Meaning in public health & epidemiology, with examples

nounCommon term

In public health & epidemiology, environmental health means: The branch of public health that deals with how the physical environment, including air, water, food, housing, noise and chemicals, affects people's health.

In Turkish: çevre sağlığı

How it is used

Environmental health officers inspect restaurants, investigate noise and housing complaints and check water quality. The field increasingly covers climate change, heat and extreme weather.

Example sentences

  1. Environmental health officers closed the restaurant after finding rats in the kitchen.

  2. Climate change is now a central issue in environmental health.

Common collocations

  • environmental health officer
  • environmental health risks
  • environmental hazards
  • environmental exposure
  • air pollutionHarmful substances in the air, such as fine particles, nitrogen dioxide and ozone, that come from traffic, industry, heating and the burning of fuels and damage health.
  • WASHShort for water, sanitation and hygiene: safe drinking water, toilets and the safe disposal of human waste, and handwashing, treated together as one area of public health.
  • occupational healthThe field that protects and promotes the health of workers by preventing work-related illness and injury and making workplaces safer and healthier.
  • One HealthAn approach that recognises that the health of people, animals and the environment is closely connected and brings these sectors together to prevent and control health threats.

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