Environmental Health

Question 1

Environmental Health

Answer 1

concerned with human exposure to human-made toxins and other harmful substances in air, food, and water

Question 2

__ in ___ Americans will get cancer in their lifetime.

Answer 2

1; 3

Question 3

Risk Assessment

Answer 3

cost benefit analysis, estimates harm to human health

Question 4

Precautionary principle

Answer 4

proactive public health approach that reduces or bans chemicals even in the absence of understanding whether they harm human health

Question 5

Toxic Release Inventory

Answer 5

facilities in certain industries which manufacture, process, or use significant amounts of toxic chemicals report annually to government on releases of these chemicals to air, water, land

Question 6

Superfund site

Answer 6

uncontrolled or abandoned place where hazardous waste is located

Question 7

brownfields

Answer 7

property where the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the real or perceived presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant

Question 8

What are three big cases related to environmental health?

Answer 8

1) Chernobyl nuclear power plant
2) Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal
3) Houston chemical plant