An Introduction to Community & Public Health 8th Edition by James McKenzie, Pinger

Exercise 7

Make arrangements to interview a director of environmental health in a local health department. Find answers to the following questions and summarize these answers in a two-page paper.
a. What are all the tasks this division of the health department carries out?
b. What is the primary environmental health problem of your community? Why is it a problem? How is it being dealt with?
c. If they inspect restaurants, which ones have the best sanitation practices?
d. What is an average day like for a health department sanitarian?