Posted: March 21st, 2015

Environmental Health Assessment

Environmental Health Assessment

Order Description

• Through the duration of this course, you have progressed through the phases of a Healthy Housing Inspection. In this assignment, you have the opportunity to

synthesize the findings of your Healthy Housing Inspection and detail the peripheral effects of the inspection on your understanding of environmental health.

To prepare for this Application Assignment:
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• Review the Application Assignments you completed for Weeks 1, 2, and 3.
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Take note of the potential health outcomes you identified and the steps you formulated to remedy them.
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• Consider the pros, cons, and surprises of the process and think about how they have impacted your understanding of environmental health.
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• Gather relevant photos or illustrations that you created in previous weeks.

To complete this Application Assignment, write a 4- to 6-page paper reporting the findings from your Healthy Housing inspection.
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• Describe what potential health outcomes could result from your findings.
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Identify steps that can be taken to improve the inspection results.
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• Describe what surprised you.
• Assess the process, describing what was good about the experience and what was challenging.
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• Identify the impact this assignment has had on you and your understanding of environmental health.
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• Where appropriate, include pictures or drawings of the place you inspected. Insert these images into your Application paper

Support your work with specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources as appropriate.

Required Resources

Readings
•Course Text: Essentials of Environmental Health
?Chapter 9, “Water Quality”
?Chapter 10, “Air Quality”
?Chapter 11, “Food Safety”
?PowerPoint: Chapter 9, “Water Quality”
?PowerPoint: Chapter 10, “Air Quality”
?PowerPoint: Chapter 11, “Food Safety”

Web Resources
•Essentials of Environmental Health Flashcards:
http://publichealth.jbpub.com/essential/friis/2e/Login.aspx?
?Chapter 9, “Water Quality”
?Chapter 10, “Air Quality”
?Chapter 11, “Food Safety”

Websites
•AIRNow. (2011). AIRNow. Retrieved from
http://www.airnow.gov/
•Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2011). CDC and food safety. Retrieved from
http://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/cdc-and-food-safety.html
•Eaton, J. M., & Caplan, R. (2003). Water for people and nature: The story of corporate water privatization [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from
http://www.thealliancefordemocracy.org/pdf/wpn01.pdf
•Food Safety. (2011). Food safety. Retrieved from
http://www.foodsafety.gov/
•National Environmental Health Association. (2011). National environmental health association. Retrieved from
http://www.neha.org/index.shtml
•National Environmental Health Association. (2011). Food safety. Retrieved from
http://www.neha.org/food_safety/
•Public Citizen. (2004). Citizen’s guide to water privatization. Retrieved from
http://www.citizen.org/documents/Citizenguide.pdf
•U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2011). Clean air act. Retrieved from
http://www.epa.gov/air/caa/
•U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2011). Indoor air quality. Retrieved from
http://www.epa.gov/iaq/
•U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2008). Introduction to clean water act. Retrieved from
http://cfpub.epa.gov/watertrain/index.cfm

Optional Resources

Readings
•Book: Pollan, M. (2006). The omnivore’s dilemma: A natural history of four meals. New York, NY: Penguin.
•Book: Schlosser, E. (2001). Fast food nation: The dark side of the all-American meal. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin.
•Book: Sinclair, U. (1906). The jungle. Retrieved from
http://books.google.com/books?id=VfWDOBvNvlkC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Media
•Devito, D. (Producer), Shamberg, M. (Producer), Sher, S. (Producer), & Soderbergh, S. (Director). (2000). Erin Brockovich. [Motion picture]. United States: Universal

Pictures.
•Guggenheim, D. (Director). (2006). An inconvenient truth. [Motion picture]. United States: Paramount Vantage.

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