Environmental Health Officer
- Environmental Health Officer
a person, employed by a local authority, with special training in such aspects of environmental health and pollution as housing, sanitation, food, clean air, noise, and water supplies (formerly known as a
Public Health Inspector). Though not a registered medical practitioner, the EHO is responsible for the organization of the environmental health department. If medical (epidemiological) advice is required, the appropriate
public health physician (
proper officer) acts in an advisory or consultant capacity.
Medical dictionary.
2011.
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