ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND SANITATION: A MODEL FOR HEALTHFUL LIVING AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

Abstract

Environmental Health and Sanitation is seen as a way of keeping the surroundings of an individual clean. safe and the prevention of contamination and pollution. These sanitary activities include waste. water treatment and disposal. vector control and other diseases prevention activities. Good Environment Health and Sanitation habits are a prerequisite for healthy living. Good health is totally incompatible with improper disposal of sewage, refuse and excreta disposal. Provision of adequate drinkable water, prevention of environmental pollution and adequate low costing housing is the primary responsibility of government and individual member of the community for healthful living and desirable health habit. This paper' shows that good environmental health and sanitation knowledge promotes healthful living and recognizes the fact that social transformation are inextricably linked and the quality of present and future life rest on meeting basic human needs without destroying the environment on which all life depends.