THE PROFESSIONALIZATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PRACTICE IN NIGERIA: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS

Abstract

This paper examined the challenges, benefits and future prospects of professionalization of environmental health practice in Nigeria. It saw the exercise as very advantageous, both to the public and to environmental health officers. The paper encouraged environmental health officers to rise to the occasion and use the opportunity of their recognition as a fully-fledged profession to take the nation to the peak of environmental sanitation. Government was also advised to fully provide financial, material and moral support to environmental health officers to enable them discharge the professional assignments creditably.