Development and Environmental Health: Criteria for Professional Education

Abstract

Economic and technologic development cause Increasingly complex health problems for the environmental health professional to resolve. The public health professional, who will be charged to give counsel and solve problems in major environmental health Issues currently may have an Insufficient educational background for the adequate performance of such responsibilities. This paper will explore the rationale for identifying and formalising improved criteria for the interdisciplinary education of the environmental health professional and describe briefly an experimental programme.