The Environmental Health Department develops activities on the environmental and occupational risk factors, which affects human health.
Its mission is the promotion and protection of Public Health.
The Department uses the best available knowledge of Public Health, and particularly of Environmental and Occupational Health, through study actions and research on risk factors of an environmental and occupational health that affect Human Health.
It acts with a preventive approach, in close articulation with all Health Services.
Its activities are mainly developed on the fields of air, soil and water.