Indira Gandhi National Open University(IGNOU) इंदिरा गांधी राष्ट्रीय मुक्त विश्वविद्यालय (इग्नू)
Environmental and Occupational Health focuses on assessing the public health risks associated with biological, chemical, physical, biomechanical and psychosocial hazards in natural and built environments. Environmental health specialists focus on the effect of environmental pollution on the health of human beings. The human health is a reflection of socio-economic & physical environment. The main link between the workplace and the general environment is that the source of the hazard is usually the same, whether it is an agriculture activity or an industrial activity. The programme aims at various concepts related to general environment, environment at the work place, related hazards and evaluation of health risk assessment by providing solutions to various aspects of environmental health occupational hazard management, epidemiology, health policy and management, and environmental health promotion. The successful learners will be able to work with health practitioners, researchers and policy makers to develop, evaluate and monitor health policies, programmes and practices related to healthy environments. As per the secondary data available there is an urgent need for competent professionals in this field.The detrimental effects on human health or on the environment caused by new types and patterns of hazards, exposures and risks due to liberalization of world trade, rapid technological progress, significant developments in transport and communication, shifting patterns of employment, changes in work organization practices, the different employment patterns of men and women, and the size, structure and life cycles of enterprises and of new technologies. Impaired health and environmental degradation lowers human productivity. The economic burden can be expressed not only in costs of treatment, but also in quantifying the loss of productivity. On the other hand healthy workers increase industrial output and lower the cost of production and through their incomes they can contribute to the health of their families and their communities. Environmental and occupational health professionals improve public health by focusing all their efforts on identifying and addressing these environmental risk factors. This is fairly a new discipline and area of study.
After completion of Post Graduate Diploma in Environmental and Occupational Health programme the learner will be able to:
