PBH3003 Environmental determinants of health and disease

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Describe the essential principles of hazard identification, risk assessment, risk management and risk communication.

2. 2

   Demonstrate fluency with the basic concepts and terms used to describe chemical, physical and biological hazards.

3. 3

   Describe basic principles of identifying common hazards and nominate ways to assess the risks presented.

4. 4

   Nominate common interventions used to control environmental risks and the key personal, social and economic factors which may reduce the effectiveness or prevent control measures being successful.

5. 5

   Critically evaluate environmental health research evidence and explain the limitations, relevance and application of the evidence to specific situations.