Comprises of those aspects of human health, including quality of life, that are determined by physical, chemical, biological, social, and psychological factors in the environment. | Environment Health (WHO) |
What is Environment Health (WHO): | Comprises of those aspects of human health, including quality of life, that are determined by physical, chemical, biological, social, and psychological factors in the environment |
What is PD (presidential decree) 856: | Code on Sanitation of the Philippines |
What presidential decree is Code on Sanitation of the Philippines: | PD 856 |
PD 856 Code on Sanitation of the Philippines is enacted on: | December 23, 1975 |
PD 856 Code on Sanitation of the Philippines is all about? or why was it existing? | To prescribe sanitation requirements for food establishments and refuse (basura) collections and disposal system of cities and municipalities |
Is enacted on December 23, 1975
To prescribe sanitation requirements for food establishments and refuse (basura) collections and disposal system of cities and municipalities. | PD 856 Code on Sanitation of the Philippines |
8 Environmental Health Indicators: 1 | Households with access to improved or safe water-stratified to Levels I, II, and III |
8 Environmental Health Indicators: 2: | Household with sanitary toilets
(or sanitary toilets) |
8 Environmental Health Indicators: 3 | Household with satisfactory disposal of solid waste
(or solid waste) |
8 Environmental Health Indicators: 4 | Household with complete basic sanitation facilities. |
8 Environmental Health Indicators: 5 | Food Establishments |
8 Environmental Health Indicators: 6 | Food establishments with sanitary permits. |
8 Environmental Health Indicators: 7 | Food handlers |
8 Environmental Health Indicators: 8 | Food handlers with health certificates |
8 Environmental Health Indicators: 1-8 | congrats |
3 Levels of Safe Water Sources:
refers to a protected well (shallow or deep well), improved dug well, developed spring, or rainwater cistern with an outlet but without a distribution system.
A Level I facility is generally adaptable for rural areas where the houses are thinly scattered.
Normally serve 15-25 households and its outreach must not be more than 250 meters from the farthest user.
The yield or discharge is generally from 40-140 liters/minute | Level I (Point source) |
3 Levels of Safe Water Sources: What is Level I (Point source) | refers to a protected well (shallow or deep well), improved dug well, developed spring, or rainwater cistern with an outlet but without a distribution system.
This facility is generally adaptable for rural areas where the houses are thinly scattered.
Normally serve 15-25 households and its outreach must not be more than 250 meters from the farthest user.
The yield or discharge is generally from 40-140 liters/minute |
3 Levels of Safe Water Sources:
refers to a system composes of a source, a reservoir, a piped distribution network, and a communal faucet located not more than 25 meters from the farthest house.
It is generally suitable for rural and urban areas
This system is designed to deliver 40-80 liters per capita per day to an average of 100 households, with one faucet per 4-6 households. | Level II (Communal Faucet System or Stand Post) |
3 Levels of Safe Water Sources: What is Level II (Communal Faucet System or Stand Post) | refers to a system composes of a source, a reservoir, a piped distribution network, and a communal faucet located not more than 25 meters from the farthest house.
It is generally suitable for rural and urban areas
This system is designed to deliver 40-80 liters per capita per day to an average of 100 households, with one faucet per 4-6 households. |
3 Levels of Safe Water Sources:
Refers to a system with a source, transmission pipes, a reservoir, and a piped distribution network for household taps.
It is generally suited for densely populated areas.
This level of facility requires minimum treatment of disinfection.
Examples of this include water districts with individual household connections. | Level III (Waterworks System) |
3 Levels of Safe Water Sources: What is Level III (Waterworks System) | Refers to a system with a source, transmission pipes, a reservoir, and a piped distribution network for household taps.
It is generally suited for densely populated areas.
This level of facility requires minimum treatment of disinfection.
Examples of this include water districts with individual household connections. |
3 Levels of Safe Water Sources: | congrats |
Classification of Solid waste: All discarded nonhazardous household commercial and institutional waste, street sweepings, and construction debris. | Municipal waste |
Classification of Solid waste: Refers to the refuse that is generated in the diagnosis, treatment or immunization of human beings or animals together with those related to the production or research of the same. | Health care waste |
Classification of Solid waste: Refers to the refuse that arise from production and from agricultural and mining industries. | Industrial waste |
Classification of Solid waste: Substances that pose either an immediate or long-term substantial danger to human. | Hazardous waste. |
Enumerate the different Classification of Solid waste: | congrats |
Hospital waste bins: Nonhazardous and non-biodegradable waste. | Black or colorless |
Hospital waste bins: Nonhazardous biodegradable wastes | Green |
Hospital waste bins: Pathological/anatomical waste | Yellow with biohazard Symbol |
Hospital waste bins: Pharmaceutical/cytotoxic or chemical waste. | Yellow with Black Band |
Hospital waste bins: Infectious wastes. | Yellow bag that can be autoclaved. |
Hospital waste bins: radioactive wastes | Orange with radioactive symbol |
Water sanitation: tested through the parameters of total coliform, fecal coliform, and heterotrophic plate count. | Microbial quality |
Water sanitation: tested through the parameters of pH, chemical specific levels, color, odor, turbidity, hardness, and total dissolved solids. | Chemical and physical quality. |
Water sanitation: tested through the parameters of gross alpha activity, gross beta, and radon. | Radiological quality |
defined food safety as the assurance that food will not cause any harm to the consumer when it is prepared and eaten according to its intended use | Food safety- NEHAP (National Environmental Health Action Plan) |
What is R.A. 9711: | Food and Drug Administration Act |
Water sanitation: What R.A. is food and drug administration act: | R.A. 9711 |
Sanitation facilities: fecal matter is collected in a can or bucket, which is periodically removed for emptying and cleaning. | Box and Can Privy (Bucket Latrine) |
Sanitation facilities: Fecal matter is eliminated into a hole in the ground that leads to a dug pit. Generally, a latrine refers to toilet facilities without a bowl. It can be equipped with either a squatting plate or a riser with a seat. | Pit Latrine (Pit Privy) |
Sanitation facilities:
It is made up of an elevated pit privy that has a covered latrine | Antipolo toilet |
Sanitation facilities:
Fecal matter is collected in a build septic tank that is not connected to a sewage system. | Septic Privy |
Sanitation facilities:
Fecal matter is eliminated into a water-sealed drop pipe that leads from the latrine to a small water filled septic tank located directly below the squatting plate. | Aqua privy |
Sanitation facilities:
Fecal matter is directly eliminated into a body of water such as a flowing rever that is underneath the facility. | Overhung latrine |
Sanitation facilities:
A pit latrine with a screened air vent installed directly over the pit. | Ventilated-Improved Pit (VIP) Latrine |
Sanitation facilities:
Fecal matter is collected in a pit privy lined with a concrete in such a manner so as to make it water tight. | Concrete Vault Privy |
Sanitation facilities:
Fecal matter is collected into a tank that contains a caustic chemical solution, which in turn controls and facilitates the waste decomposition. | Chemical Privy |
Sanitation facilities:
Fecal matter is collected into a pit with urine and anal cleansing materials with the addition of organic garbage such as leaves and grass to allow biological decomposition and production of agricultural or fishpond compost. | Compost Privy |
Sanitation facilities:
It has a bowl with a water seal trap like the conventional tank flush toilet except that it requires only a small volume of water for flushing. | Pour Flush Latrine |
Sanitation facilities:
Feces are excreted into a bowl with a water sealed trap. The water tank that receives a limited amount of water empties into the bowl for flushing of fecal materials through the water sealed trap and into the sewage system. | Tank-Flush Toilet |