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The course will enable students to advance knowledge in engineering services and applicable installations, i.e., electricity, water supply, telephone services and many more.

Definitions, concepts. General introduction to Epidemiology, Environmental epidemiology and domain of environmental epidemiology. Exposure Assessment. Descriptive Analysis, methods of investigation including the use of Time –Trend and Spatial pattern analysis. Poisson Regression. Surveillance, Risk Assessment and management. Pollution of air, water and soil, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation. Investigation of disease clusters, potential environmental hazards to health. Rudiments of environmental epidemiology, use of statistical packages (SPSS, EPI – INFO, Epidata) and vital statistic and many others. Environmental contamination, environmental remediation, exposure quantification, dose response analysis, healthy worker effect principles, measures of association, causality & attribution.

The concept of Environmental ethics and philosophy. Role of ethics in the environment. Importance of environmental ethics. Branches of environmental ethics: a) environmental law; b) environmental sociology; c) Eco theology; d) ecological economics; e) ecology; and f) environmental geography. Historical development of environmental philosophy in the twentieth and twenty first century; role of environmental philosophy in evaluating attitudes toward the environment; compatibility of human and environmental/ecological values; Importance of environmental philosophy within the management and design of social systems; Relevance of environmental ethics and values within the field of environmental science.

Definitions; ecological concepts; practices of Veterinary Medicine and its impacts on human and the environment; Farm and abattoir waste and management; environmental sanitation and disinfection; vector control

The course is designed for the undergraduates in public health and others in the health sciences programs. Highlights the three cardinal areas of the environment i.e. the biological, physical/chemical and the socio-cultural environments. Components of the environment. The problems, deteriorating forms/characteristics of the man-made environments with attendant consequences. The important topics in the course include urban and rural environments with particular emphasis on the housing problems. Control of food, water and sanitation. Refuse/solid wastes disposal and management. Air and water pollution particularly in the riverine areas. Psychological, physiological, and genetic factors that affects health after exposure to environmental hazards. Genetic and physiological factors that predisposes disease as a result of environmental contamination. Visits could be made to specific side to observe conditions existing with regards to air pollution, food sanitation and solid wastes disposal. The various agencies involved in environmental protection in relation to policies, laws, regulation codes and ordinances. Definition and perspective of public health laws. Historical perspective of public health laws. Framework and rationale of public health laws. Major health offences and Procedure of enforcement. Environmental risk assessment. Students chose specific topics of interest for project presentation at class seminars. Environmental Health Laws. Procedures for enforcement of environmental health laws.

Introduction to Environmental Health laboratory. Importance and functions of Environmental Health laboratory (EHL). Construction and organisation of EHL. General laboratory, specific EHLs, environmental health biology, Environmental Health chemistry, environmental health physics, arbovirus laboratory. Safety precautions in the laboratory – safety manuals. Instrumentation: Microscopes, autoclaves, incubators, sterilizers, fridge/ freezers, hot air oven, lasers, gas chromatography, High-powered liquid chromatography, Atomic Absorption spectrophotometer (AAS) UV-visible spectrophotometer and many others, colorimeter, audiometer, dosimeter, cryostat, Polymerase Chain Reaction and many others. Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in field and laboratory practice. Preparation of standard solutions and reagents. Documentation and storage of laboratory equipment and reagents. Laboratory assessment and chemical hygiene. Sample collection, preservation, transportation and analysis for water, air, food, soil, objects, fomites and body fluids and body fluids. Application of EHLs in forensics. Sample collection and analysis from crime scene. Quality assurance and quality control. Concept of laboratory log book, record keeping and reporting. Field trip to various environmental facilities such as water treatment plant, waste water treatment plant, solid waste management facilities, public health laboratories, markets, selected industries, and many others. professional accreditations of EHL. Role of EHLs in disease control. Accident and emergency management: -chemical spills, swallow, fire, falls, exhaustion and many others.

Basic concepts; principles and history of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA); Relationship between EIA and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS); Indicator species and organisms of value in environmental assessment; Essentials in EIA; Potential problems of EIA and their solutions; Cost benefits as a tool for environmental decision-making; Field case studies of impact assessment in Nigeria

Basic concepts; principles and history of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA); Relationship between EIA and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS); Indicator species and organisms of value in environmental assessment; Essentials in EIA; Potential problems of EIA and their solutions; Cost benefits as a tool for environmental decision-making; Field case studies of impact assessment in Nigeria

Environmental impact of human actions. Response of society to environmental changes. Bio- geophysical and socio-economic impacts. Administrative procedures in planning/decision making of environmental impact assessment (EIA). Contents of EIA. Methods for identifying, predicting and interpreting impacts/effects and inspection procedures. Conceptual framework for EIA using simultaneous models and policy analysis. Socio-economic methods or EIA with respect to current socio-economic environment and methods for deriving impacts.

The concept of environmental impact assessment. Environmental impact of human actions. Response of society to environmental changes. Bio-geophysical and socio-economic impacts. Administrative procedures in planning/decision making of environmental impact assessment (EIA). Contents of EIA (Definition, Steps in EIA, Screening and Scope, Impact Mitigation Techniques and Mitigation Hierarchy Alternatives, Report Writing Format and Follow-Up Programmes). Methods for identifying, predicting and interpreting impacts/effects and inspection procedures. Conceptual framework for EIA using simultaneous models and policy analysis. Socio- economic methods or EIA with respect to current socio-economic environment and methods for deriving impacts.