Environmental and Occupational Health Flashcards
This is concerned with all aspects of natural health and built environments that affect an individual and population health.
Environmental Health
These are the notable impacts of Environmental Health.
Sanitation, safety, prevention, and control.
This is the reason why there is an increased demand of environmental health professionals.
Global Warming/Climate Change
These are the effects of indoor and outdoor pollution.
Cardiovascular disease and respiratory disease.
These are the effects of food outbreaks and can be deadly.
E-coli, salmonella, and listeria.
These are factors that must be controlled to avoid the spread of diseases.
Drinking unsafe water, cancerous chemicals, and toxins.
This is defined as any source of potential damage, harm, or adverse health effects on something or someone under certain working conditions.
Hazard
These are hazards like spills, tripping, height, or machinery, most commonly found in workplaces.
Safety Hazard
These examples of safety hazards.
Injuries, illness, and deaths.
These are hazards that are acquired from disease causing organisms and toxins.
Biological Hazards
These are kinds of biological hazards.
Microbes, parasites, viruses, insects, dogs, snakes, etc.
These are hazards that serve as factors within an environment that can harm the body without necessarily touching it.
Physical Hazard
These are examples of physical hazards.
Radiation (ionizing or non-ionizing) and High exposure to UV rays.
These hazards relate to body positions, working conditions, and interaction between worker and environment.
Ergonomic Hazards
These are the triggers to ergonomic hazards.
Repetitive motions, improper equipment design, awkward position, and speedy exertions.
These are hazards that expose workers to chemicals (solid, liquid, gas).
Chemical Hazard
This is the number of chemicals used in Philippines industries.
28,000
These are the ways chemicals can be used.
As raw materials, intermediate, finished, or waste products.
These are any solid particles or liquid droplets that are dispensed in the air.
Particulate Matter
These are fluids with neither shape nor specific volume.
Gaseous or Aero Form
These are the gas forms of substances that are usually liquid or solids that are volatile.
Vapors
These hazards are the stresses that affect workers mental health.
Working Organizational Hazards
These are the long-term effects of WO hazards.
Workload, workplace violence, and psychosocial hazards.
These are examples of WO hazards.
Boredom, underuse of skill, shifting work, bullying, harassment, poor communication, and poor relationship with superiors.
This is a branch of medicine concerned with the elevation of the potential hazard risk and prevention, treatment, and palliation of working conditions.
Occupational Health
This key element includes the health risk management at work.
Health Protection
This key element is the health risk assessment associated with environment and lifestyle.
Health Promotion
This key element is concerned with the collection of data for evaluation and effectiveness checks on control measures.
Health Surveillance
This is the environmental factors, agents, or situations that may create harm or injury to one’s physical well-being.
Health Hazards