In this slide it help you to understand environmental sanitation and housing. It blows you to improve your knowledge regarding environmental sanitation.

1. COMPONENTS, ROLE AND
RESPOSIBILITIES OF
COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSE
IN ENVIRONMENT
SANITATION
PREPARE
BY
NURSINGWAANI 🎉

2. CONTENT:-
 INTRODUCTION
 DEFINITION
 COMPONENTS OF ENVIRONMENT
SANITATION
 ROLES AND RESPOSIBILITIES OF
CHN IN ENVIRONMENT
SANITATION

3. INTRODUCTION:-
 India is still lagging far behind many
countries in field of environmental
health.
 Only 31 per cent of the rural population
has assess to potable water supply and
only 0.5 per cent enjoys basic
sanitation.
 The basic problems of safe water
supply and sanitary disposal of human
excreta are yet to be solved.
 Most of the ill health in the country is
due to defective environment.

5. DEFINITIONS:-
ENVIRONMENT:-Environment means all the
external factors-living and non living, material and
non material which surround man.
SANITATION:-Sanitation is defined as “a way of
life”. It is quality of living that is expressed in the
clean home, the clean farm, the clean business,
the clean neighbourhood and the clean community.
ENVIRONMENT SANITATION:-The control of all
those factors in man’s physical environment which
exercise or may exercise a deleterious effect on his
physical development, health and survival

6. COMPONENTS OF
ENVIRONMENT SANITATION:-
 Clean and safe water supply.
 Clean and safe ambient air.
 Efficient and safe animal, human and
industrial waste disposal.
 Protection of food from biological and
chemical contaminants.
 Adequate housing in clean and safe
surrounding.

7. CLEAN AND SAFE WATER
SUPPLY:-
 Water intended for human
consumption should be safe and
wholesome. This has been defined as
water that is:-
a. Free from pathogenic agents.
b. Free from harmful chemical
substances.
c. pleasant to taste.
d. Useable for domestic purposes

8. USE OF WATER:-
 Domestic uses.
 Public purposes.
 Industrial purposes.
 Agriculture uses.
 Power production from hydropower
and steam power.

9. PURIFICATION OF WATER:-
 Purification of water is of great
importance in community. It may be
considered under to headings:-
• Purification of water on large scale:-
a) Storage
b) Filteration
c) Disinfection
• Purification of water on small scale.

10.  Purification of water on small scale:-
a) Boiling
b) Chemical disinfection
c) Filtration
d) Ultraviolat irradiation
e) Multistage reverse osmosis
purification of water

11. CLEAN AND SAFE AMBIENT
AIR:-
 Air is a mechanical mixture of gases.
Composition:-
Nitrogen:-78%
Oxygen:-20.93%
Carbon dioxide:-0.03%

12. CAUSES OF IMPURE AIR
 Respiration of man and animals.
 Combustion of coal, gas,oil etc.
 Decomposition of organic matter.
 Trade ,traffic and manufacturing
processes which give off dust,
fumes,vapors and gases.

13. PROBLEMS RELATED TO
HEALTH:-
 RTI.
 COPD.
 Asthma.
 Lung cancer.
 Impaired neuropsychological
development in children.
 Bronco constriction.
 Bronchial hypersensitivity.

14. EFFICIENT AND SAFE ANIMAL,
HUMAN AND INDUSTRIAL
WASTE DISPOSAL:-
WASTE DISPOSAL:-Removing and
destroying or storing damaged, used
or other unwanted domestic,
agricultural are industrial products and
substances.

15. SOURCES OF WASTE:-
 Garbage.
 Rubbish.
 Dead animals.
 Discarded material.
 Industrial waste.
 Human excreta.

16. METHODS OF DISPOSAL OF
WASTE:-
 Dumping
 Incineration
 Composting
 Manure pits
 burial

18. PROTECTION OF FOOD FROM
BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL
CONTAMINATS:-
 INTRODUCTION:-
 Food protection and food preservation
have one aim in common they are
intended to prevent contamination and
spoilage of foods.

19. BIOLOGICAL
CONTAMINANTS:-
 Biological contamination occurs when
food becomes contaminated by living
organisms or the substances they
produce.
 Biological contaminants include:-
 Bacteria.
 Virus.
 Fungi.
 Protozoa.
 Insects.
 Dust mites.

20. CHEMICAL CONTAMINATS:-
 Chemical contamination occurs when food
comes into contact with or produces toxic
chemicals, which can lead to chemical
food poisoning.
 Common chemical contaminants include:-
 cleaning products (e.g. detergent,
sanitizer)
 pesticides/herbicides
 toxic chemicals in metals and plastic
 preservatives
 naturally occurring toxins

21. PROTECTION OF FOOD FROM
CONTAMINATION:-
 All water used in food preparation should be
wholesome.
 All dishes, glasses and utensils must be kept
clean by regular washing in clean water, and
clean utensils should be kept covered.
 All surfaces that come into contact with food
should be meticulously clean.
 Food storage, preparation and serving areas
should be free of pets, rats, mice and insects.
 Food should be covered, and kept separate
from chemicals and poisons.
 Cloths that come into contact with dishes and
utensils, and that are used to cover food, need
to be changed daily and boiled before use.

22. ADEQUATE HOUSING IN
CLEAN AND SAFE
SURROUNGING:-
INTRODUCTION:-
 Residential environment is a part of
total environment affecting the health
of an individual and community

23. DEFINITION:-
 A WHO expert group on publish health
aspects of housing preferes to use the
term “Residential environment” which is
defined as the physical structure that
man uses and the environs of structute
including all necessary services,
facilities, equipment and devices
needed or desired.

24. GOALS:-
 Shelter.
 Family life.
 Access to community facilities.
 Economic stability.

25. HOUSING STANDARD:-
Urban housing:-
 Site
 Set back
 Walls
 Roof
 Rooms
 Floor area
 Cubic space
 Windows
 Lighting
 Kitchen
 Privy
 Garbage and refuse
 Bathing and washing
 Water supply

26. Rural housing:-
 Two living room
 Ample verandah
 Saparate kitchen with paved sink
 Sanitary latrine
 Window
 Tube well
 Cattle sheds
 There should be adequate arrangement for the disposal of
waste water, refuse and garbage

28. ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF COMMUNITY
HEALTH NURSE IN ENVIRONMENT SANITATION:-
• Community health nurse should be advocates
for transforming waste into usable products.
• Nurse who works in the community should be
aware of the types of environmental hazards
present.
• Community health nurses are in the ideal
position to detect environmental hazards and
to instruct or educate individual families and
communities on ways to avoid or alter
environmental hazards.
• CHN may not always directly combat these
hazards but they do monitor, report, advise
community members and serve as an action-
oriented catalysts to initiate community activity.

29.  To implement an ecological approach
nurses must continually recognize the
interaction among people and the
environment in which they live.
 Nurse should aware to the community
people to wear mask or handkerchief
if there is any dusty wind, smoke ,or
any other air pollutants which can
cause irritation to respiratory tract.

30.  Advise community people to use
electricity , solar energy etc in place or
coal for preventing smoke .
 Aware the people to maintain the
green belt between industrial and
residential areas.