The document defines the environment as all external living and non-living factors that surround humans. It identifies the physical, biological, and social components of the environment and lists factors like poor water, air pollution, poor housing, and soil pollution that can influence health. The document discusses sanitation as a way of life that involves clean households, neighborhoods, communities, animal habitats, farms, and businesses. The main goal of sanitation is to promote and protect health beyond just the construction of toilets. Environmental sanitation involves controlling physical environmental factors that could negatively impact human physical development, health, and survival.

2. ENVIRONMENT
All external factors living, non living, material, non
material which surrounds man.
Components of Environment
 Physical environment -water, air, soil, housing, noise,
radiation.
 Biological environment-plant and animal life
 Social environment-custom, culture, habits, income,
occupation, religion.

3. Influencing factors of Environment on health
 Poor water supply and sanitation
 Air Pollution
 Poor housing
 Soil Pollution
 Animal Husbandry
 Vector & Micro-organism infestation

4. Sanitation
Sanitation is a way of life
The science of safeguarding
health by adopting clinginess
• Clean Household
• Clean neighborhood
• Clean Community
• Clean Animal habitat
• Clean Farms
• Clean business

5. Sanitation should
not be taken as
synonymous to
Construction of
Toilets
Main motto of practicing sanitation is to promote and protect health

6. Environmental Sanitation
Control of all the factors in man’s physical
environment which exercise or may
exercise deleterious effect on his physical
development, health & survival