EH406 Environmental Health Management
 | The unit also provides for Environmental Health (EH) program/activities and project management skills in relation to National Health policy directives. Some of the EH activities includes: water, food, quarantine, sanitation, EHIA, occupational health, housing, sustainable development, vector control, health promotion, environmental health component of the affected environment and populations of disasters. Students are introduced to EH resource management practices in the rural (district) to the urban (town/city) settings. Both modern and traditional techniques for resource management are explored. Methodologies for resources, program/activity planning and management of specific resources for sustainable use are also outlined. The impact on resources and the environment resulting from extractive projects and methods of minimizing generated risks are analysed |
The topic aims to develop student's research skills through individual project work. Students are required to develop research question relevant to environmental health, plan and conduct a research program to investigate this hypothesis taking into consideration scientific, social and legal aspects. Topics that will be covered include; preparation of questionaires, writing research proposal and literature review. This topic and EH408 are taught and assessed as a continnuum.
This topic is a continuation of EH405- Environmental Health Research 1. Specific topics that will be covered include; Research methodology, data collection and analysis, and presentation of research findings in a poster format. The topic aims to provide students with research skills appropriate to environmental health.