title: [Health and environment].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The Department of Hygiene, Faculty of Medicine, University of Novi Sad, is responsible for undergraduate and graduate courses in the field of preventive medicine. The principal task of physicians in the 21st century is to provide health promotion and desease prevention. In the future, evaluation of physician knowledge and competence will be predominantly based on patients' health conditions.
  Human health is a result of long-term interaction between human genome and the environment. Good human health requires permanent control of health conditions as well as control of environmental health hazards. Various environmental factors, such as physical, chemical, biological, social and economic, affect the population health. Air, drinking water and food are fundamental to the existence of life of all living beings on Earth, and therefore they have enormous influence on the health of individuals and populations.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The significance of the above mentioned requirements, essential for human health, is the reason why the Department of Hygiene conducted an investigation on the quality of air, food and water (water is a foodstuff as well) in Vojvodina.
authors.affiliation: Institut zajavno zdravlje, Novi Sad.
authors.forename: Budimka
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Novaković
authors.forename: Miroslava
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kristoforović-Ilić
authors.forename: Ljiljana
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Trajković-Pavlović
authors.forename: Ljilja
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Torović
authors.forename: Marija
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jevtić
authors.forename: Sanja
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bijelović
authors.forename: Dragana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Balać
authors.forename: Jelena
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bjelanović
authors.forename: Milka
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Popović
mesh_terms: D004782:Environmental Health; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D011315:Preventive Medicine; D015980:Public Health Practice; D015022:Yugoslavia