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Environment and Human Health is an upper level undergraduate course taught for public health majors as well as non-majors. The course focuses on disease-causing elements in the environment, mode of their transfer in the human body from the environment, and their effect on the human body, and the measures and regulations to prevent their infection. This course requires a textbook. the zero cose materials has been developed for one of the chapters covered in the course; water quality. Eventually an effort will be made to replace all chapters with zero cost materials effectively eliminating the need of the textbook. 

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