LESSON 13 Flashcards
The aspect of public health that is concerned with these forms of life, substances, forces, and conditions in the ‘surroundings or person’
Environmental health
Sanitation Code
PD 856
Comprises of those aspects of human health, including life, that are determined by physical, chemical, biological, social, and psychosocial factors
Environmental Health
It is one of the component of the man’s well being that is determined by interactions with the physical, chemical, biological, social, and psychosocial factors
Environmental Health
Give example of environmental health indicators in the FHSIS
Household with sanitary toilets
Food establishments
Food establishments with sanitary permit
Food handlers
Food handlers with health certificates
Source of SOLID WASTES
Municipal Wastes
Healthcare Wastes
Industrial Wastes
Hazardous Wastes
The discipline associated with ‘the control of generation, storage, collection, transfer, and transport, processing of solid wastes in a manner’
Solid Waste Management
Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000
RA 900
What color: non-hazardous and non-biodegradable wastes
Black or Colorless
What color: non-hazardous and biodegradable
Green
What color: pathological/anatomical wastes
Yellow with biohazard symbol
What color: pharmaceutical, cytotoxic, or chemical wastes
Yellow with black band
What color: radioactive wastes
Orange with radioactive symbol
Construction of any establishment within ______ meters from a dump of landfill
200 meters
The lead agency on the determination of the standards for quality of drinking water is the _____________-
DOH
The general requirements of a safe drinking water
Microbial quality
Chemical and Physical quality
Radiological Quality
It is tested through the parameters of total coliform, fecal coliform, and heterotrophic plate count
Microbial Quality
It is tested through parameters of pH, chemical specific levels, color, odor, turbidity, hardness, and total dissolved solids
Chemical and physical quality
It is tested through the parameters of gross alpha activity, gross beta, and radon.
Radiological quality
What level: communal faucet system or standpost
Level II
What level: point source
Level I
What level: waterworks system
Level III
What level: refers to a system composed of a source, reservoir, a piped distribution network, and a communal faucet located not more than 25 minutes
Level II
What level: refer to protected well, improved dug well, developed spring, or rain water cistern
Level I
What level: refers to a system with a source transmission pipes, a reservoir, and a piped distribution network for household taps
Level III
Two major source of Air Pollution
Mobile Source
Stationary Source
Refers to any vehicle/machine propelled by or through oxidation or reduction reactions
Mobile source
Refers to any building or fixed structure, facility or installation that emits or may emit any air pollutant
Stationary Source
