6.4.5. Environmental Health

Sampling and Inspections Plans oriented to detect environmental health hazards and risk factor in different settings: houses, neighborhoods, schools, labor centers (accidents and occupational diseases), public places; water, food, air (indoor/outdoor pollution), pesticides and toxic/chemicals, and radionuclide are very important to understand the health determinants. Saint Lucia MOH EHU should update the situation of the environmental health risk in relation to the epidemiological situation for CD and NCD at least once in a year, define which are the indicators that should be maintained in surveillance, and which are the new ones, and their needs. At same time, it is necessary to define which data are going to be sent to EpiU and which ones and analysis are going to be returned for mutual benefit and integration. 

In addition, “Environmental Health Unit (Vector Control, Food Safety and Hygiene, POE, Climate Change impacts)” are the proposed indicators based on the experience of the ECC countries.