Term

environmental hygiene

Term

Practical prevention and control measures used to improve the basic environmental conditions affecting human health, for example clean water supply, human and animal waste disposal, protection of food from contamination, and provision of healthy housing, all of which are concerned with the quality of the human environment.

Synonyms:

Source:

EEA Glossary

Context:

Comment

Definition source publication

After Duffus, 1993. Quoted by: International Society of Doctors for the Environment (ISDE). Primer on international environment and health politics (version of September 2001).

Publication year

1993

Definition source URL

http://glossary.eea.europa.eu/EEAGlossary

Organisation

Organisation full name

After Duffus, 1993

Subjects

Long definition