[Health and environment].
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.
Novaković
Budimka
B
Institut zajavno zdravlje, Novi Sad.
Kristoforović-Ilić
Miroslava
M
Trajković-Pavlović
Ljiljana
L
Torović
Ljilja
L
Jevtić
Marija
M
Bijelović
Sanja
S
Balać
Dragana
D
Bjelanović
Jelena
J
Popović
Milka
M
D004782:Environmental Health; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D011315:Preventive Medicine; D015980:Public Health Practice; D015022:Yugoslavia