Unit Code: EVH519

Unit Name: Built Environment and Health

Description: A healthy built environment supports good health and overall wellbeing. The built environment influences health through air and water quality, noise pollution, green spaces, housing quality, transportation, and built infrastructure. Poor air, water and environnmetal quality can lead to health issues, while green spaces promote mental wellbeing and physical activity. Quality housing prevents health problems, and efficient transport infrastructure improves air quality, prevents stormwater pooling and enables people to move about efficiently. These are some of the things you will learn in this course.

Learning Target Outcomes: On successful completion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Explain what comprises healthy Built Environment 2. Discuss specific environmental risk and benefit factors for the Built Environment 3. Explain the units of human occupancy in the Built Environment 4. Explain broadly environment public health infrastructure required for a healthy Built Environment 5. Describe the sanitary appliances and fittings required for a healthy Built Environment 6. Practicum: Apply the processes, tools and ethics approaches that EH practitioners use to ensure a healthy Built Environment

Prerequisite: N/A

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 15

Offered In: Semester 2