Environmental impacts; monitoring, assessment and evaluation
Brief description
Human health also depends on a wide range of different environmental factors. environmental factors. A healthy environment is a basic prerequisite for enabling current and future generations to achieve the goal of "growing old in good health", which is desirable for everyone.Description
This requires the continuous identification of environmental influences that are beneficial to health as well as those that pose a risk to health and are harmful to health. This is the only way to recognize and implement the necessary corrective measures.
The task of "recording and evaluating the effects of environmental influences on human health" is primarily the responsibility of the health authorities at district level. In this context, their involvement in environmental epidemiological studies and the implementation of subject-specific surveys and investigations is important. Health protection and health promotion measures can be derived from this.Legal basis