Environment and Health

Environmental Science · Chapter 17 · 6. Technology and Environment

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Disease as an indicator of environmental health: malaria, enteric and respiratory diseases
Role of sanitation, clean water and nutrition in preventing deficiency and water-borne diseases
Communicable diseases: HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and hepatitis - causative agents, transmission and prevention
Non-communicable diseases: cardiovascular disease, diabetes, skin cancer, scurvy, rickets and COPD - environmental and lifestyle causes
Low-cost sanitation: pit latrine, ventilated improved pit latrine and dry sanitation
Organisation of basic government health services in India
Traditional systems of medicine: Ayurveda, Unani and local health traditions; AYUSH