ENH 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Built Environment, Urban Sprawl, Health Promotion

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Environmental Health
• Course: ENH 325
• Professor: Elizabeth Choi & Tony Amalfa

Document Summary

Week 3 built environment & public health. Ontario public health system is unique in canada. Involves shared authority and accountability at both the provincial and local municipal levels. Purpose: to provide for the organization and delivery of public health programs and services, to prevent the spread of disease; and, to promote and protect the health of the people of ontario. Immunization & communicable diseases: healthy environments, built and natural environments, climate change, exposure to hazardous, prevention & control, safe water, school health, substance use & injury prevention environmental contaminants and biological agents, exposure to radiation, including. Public health authority & built enviornment: extreme weather. Indoor air pollutants: the ontario public health standards set out the minimum requirements for ph programs, outdoor air pollutants, other emerging environmental. Defining the built environment: the physical constructed parts of where we live and work (e. g. homes, buildings, streets, open spaces and infrastructure), land-use planning is an important process to shape a (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)it(cid:455)"s (cid:271)uilt e(cid:374)vi(cid:396)o(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t.