A key component of public health, environmental public health focuses on preventing and controlling human diseases caused or impacted by our environment. Many aspects of our environment, both built (pools, sidewalk, and park access) and natural (water, air, soil, and food), can impact our health.
Environmental public health professionals work to prevent disease and create healthy environments that promote well-being, fostering healthy, and safe communities by ensuring the safety of what we eat, breathe, touch, and drink.
Statewide activities focus on prevention, preparedness, and education through routine monitoring, outreach, surveillance, and sampling of facilities and other environments that may contribute to injuries and the occurrence or transmission of disease
Florida Water Quality
Protecting Florida Together map delivers statewide water quality information for blue-green algae and red tide (harmful algal blooms). You can sign-up to receive notifications when water quality changes in your area.
Environmental Health currently inspects and regulates:
- Rabies and Animal Bite Investigations
- Biomedical Waste
- Commercial Swimming Pools
- Body Piercing Establishment
- Migrant Labor and Farm Worker Housing
- Mobile Home and RV parks
- Onsite Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems
- Sanitary Nuisance Complaints
- Septic System Permitting
- Tanning Salon Inspections
- Drinking Water Surveillance
- Well Permits
- Tattooing and Permanent Makeup
- Food Hygiene and Group Care