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What is EOH?
The primary mission of the Division of Environmental and Occupational Health (EOH) is to provide excellence in occupational and environmental health with respect to the education of environmental and occupational health professionals, in the conduct of research, and in service to the people and the State of Minnesota.
These aims are achieved through:
- masters' and doctoral education programs,
- research and scholarly activities,
- professional practice and service,
- continuing education, and
- outreach programs that include collaborative efforts with faculty in colleges throughout the university, and through collaboration with health care organizations, industry and government agencies
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EOH Specialty Tracks
EOH graduate educational programs are organized into three core areas that reflect the inter- and multi-disciplinary scientific fields of environmental health as an essential component of the wider field of public health. These cores are:
- Health effects (toxicological and epidemiological methods for evaluations of environmental health effects) which includes environmental and occupational epidemiology, occupational health nursing, and environmental toxicology;
- Environmental exposures (addresses the nature, effects, and regulation of exposure to biological, physical, and chemical hazards in the environment); and includes industrial hygiene, environmental infectious diseases, and environmental chemistry; and
- Environmental health policy (a scientific basis for environmental and occupational health policy), which incorporates the environmental health policy specialty.
Students may elect to pursue the general program in environmental and occupational health, or may concentrate in one of the following specialty areas: environmental chemistry,environmental and occupational epidemiology, environmental health policy, environmental infectious diseases, environmental toxicology, industrial hygiene,and occupational health nursing.
Doctoral training programs are available in occupational health services research and policy; molecular basis of risk assessment; and occupational injury prevention research training. In addition EOH offers a focus in occupational medicine, the academic component of an occupational medicine residence program for physicians.
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What's New in EOH |
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New Course Offering Spring 2004
PubH 5100-001 (66666) “Children’s Health and the Environment” (2 Cr) is now on the Spring 2004 web class schedule and is available for registration. Mondays 4:00 –6:00 Starts Jan 26, 2004
Course will examine the role the environment plays on the health of children. Topics include: Using the internet as a tool in children's environmental health; Environmental threats to child health;Children are not small adults - what is the difference?; Risk Assessment for Children – Should it be different?; Gene-Environment Interaction - Recognizing susceptible populations; Fetal programming - origins of complex diseases; Environmental signals and sensors: Alcohol and drugs and nutrition - do they relate to developmental syndromes?; Metals (lead, cadmium , mercury, copper, arsenic and iron, nickel and manganese- exposure, health effects, risk management; Pesticides - Do they play a role in children's health? Polychlorinated compounds - PCBs Dioxins and Furans; Asthma - Role of Indoor environments; Asthma - role of outdoor environments; Water and its role in determining children's health; Infectious disease and children's health Domestic and global implications; Social capital and the role of the built environment on the health of children.
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