environmental health Flashcards
Occupational and environmental health nurses collaborate on initiatives to
refuse chemical and other environmental exposures, illnesses and injuries.
Water quality refers to
volume, mineral content, toxic chemical pollution, pathogenic microorganisms levels.
WHO refers to EH outcomes as
- Clean air, stable climate
- adaqqute water, sanitation, hygiene
- healthy and safe workplaces
- sound agricultural practices
- health supportive cities, preservation of nature.
critical theory
-Promotes upstream thinking
-Raises questions about oppressive situations
-Involves community members in the definition and solution of problems
-Facilitates interventions that reduce health-damaging effects of environments
Assessment environmental exposure history
IPREPARE
benefits of conducting an environmental health history
-Increased awareness
-timelines and accuracy of diagnosis
-prevents disease
-identifies potential work related environmental hazards
Emerging issues in environmental health
-natural disasters
-ozone depletion
-fossil fuel burning
-marine dumping
-active land mine abandonment in war torn areas
-global climate/ecological changes (destroy tropical rainforest)
-enviromental public h infrastructure.
Causes of global ecological changes
-industralization
-urbanization
-migration
-irrigation, deforestation, reforestation, displacement of animals, parasites, insects.
water related diseases include
-Cholera
-typhoid
-dysentery
-hepatitis A
Social Justice
fairness or equality in the distribution and burdens of a society.
Enviromental justice movement
Fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people (EPA definition)
Body burden
chemical burden in our bodies; pesticides, flame retardants, other pullatants in womb.
