Learning Outcomes
On completion of the course, students should be able to:
1. explain two (2) scopes of fundamental environmental health and sanitation practices;
2. identify any ten (10) environmental factors that affects public health;
3. discuss environmental sanitation and hygiene practices;
4. explain any five (5) components of environmental sanitation in Nigeria;
5. describe three (3) techniques for promoting community sanitation;
6. identify five (5) factors causing environmental pollution from landfills or waste dumpsite;
7. state any five (5) problems of environmental sanitation policy in Nigeria; and
8. name any three (3) types of sewage such as domestic, industrial and municipal, and prevention of pollution from these sources.
Course Contents
Definition, concepts and terminologies of environmental health and sanitation. Components of environmental sanitation: solid waste management. Excreta and sewage disposal. Food sanitation. Market and abattoir sanitation. Sanitary inspection of premises (SIP). Housing and urban development. Management of the urban drainage system. Pollution and control: types of pollution. Causes and effects. Control of environmental pollution. Methods of disposal of dead bodies. Embalmment of dead bodies. Autopsy report. Disposal of dead bodies in emergency conditions. Exhumation. Transportation of corpse. Mortuary and cemetery. Techniques involved in promoting community sanitation. Community mobilisation and participation in environmental sanitation. Management of urban drainage system. Financing environmental sanitation. Sanitation advocacy. Tools, equipment and instruments for environmental sanitation. National policy on environmental sanitation. Environmental sanitation laws. Environmental sanitation diseases such as soil transmitted diseases, Cholera and many others.
- Teacher: Abdullahi Tawfiq Umar, Ph.D