EHS 313- ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM

For the purposes of environmental health, however, a more practical definition of the environment is needed, because environment health action generally tries to change only the natural and physical environment and related behaviours (e.g hand washing). Such interventions can rarely modify the social and cultural aspects of a community, which are usually independent of the environment (e.g cultural pressures on lifestyle, unemployment). As a result, a more practical definition of the environment might be thatEnvironment is the complex of physical, chemical, and biotic biological factors (such as climate, soil and living things) that act upon an organization, or an ecological community and ultimately determine its form and survival, as well as the aggregate social and cultural conditions that influence the life of an individual, or community (Merriran Webster, 2019.) According to Esri (2017), environmental health agencies at all levels of government and the partners that support them, example University, non-profit/nongovernmental organization, information technology vendors and consultants, are increasingly using Geographic Information System (GIS) technology as assess and protect the health of the populations they serve, understand the impacts of the environment on human health and improve environmental health services delivery. Environmental health organizations are interested in increasing their overall GIS capacity so they may enhance environmental health practices in both programmatic arrears, including air pollution, water, soil, toxics, waste, built environment, etc) and common business functions such as assessment, policy development and assurance (Esri, 2017).