LESSON 13

Question 1

The aspect of public health that is concerned with these forms of life, substances, forces, and conditions in the ‘surroundings or person’

Answer 1

Environmental health

Question 2

Sanitation Code

Answer 2

PD 856

Question 3

Comprises of those aspects of human health, including life, that are determined by physical, chemical, biological, social, and psychosocial factors

Answer 3

Environmental Health

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Environmental Health

Question 5

Give example of environmental health indicators in the FHSIS

Answer 5

Household with sanitary toilets
Food establishments
Food establishments with sanitary permit
Food handlers
Food handlers with health certificates

Question 6

Source of SOLID WASTES

Answer 6

Municipal Wastes
Healthcare Wastes
Industrial Wastes
Hazardous Wastes

Question 7

The discipline associated with ‘the control of generation, storage, collection, transfer, and transport, processing of solid wastes in a manner’

Answer 7

Solid Waste Management

Question 8

Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000

Answer 8

RA 900

Question 9

What color: non-hazardous and non-biodegradable wastes

Answer 9

Black or Colorless

Question 10

What color: non-hazardous and biodegradable

Answer 10

Green

Question 11

What color: pathological/anatomical wastes

Answer 11

Yellow with biohazard symbol

Question 12

What color: pharmaceutical, cytotoxic, or chemical wastes

Answer 12

Yellow with black band

Question 13

What color: radioactive wastes

Answer 13

Orange with radioactive symbol

Question 14

Construction of any establishment within ______ meters from a dump of landfill

Answer 14

200 meters

Question 15

The lead agency on the determination of the standards for quality of drinking water is the _____________-

Answer 15

DOH

Question 16

The general requirements of a safe drinking water

Answer 16

Microbial quality
Chemical and Physical quality
Radiological Quality

Question 17

It is tested through the parameters of total coliform, fecal coliform, and heterotrophic plate count

Answer 17

Microbial Quality

Question 18

It is tested through parameters of pH, chemical specific levels, color, odor, turbidity, hardness, and total dissolved solids

Answer 18

Chemical and physical quality

Question 19

It is tested through the parameters of gross alpha activity, gross beta, and radon.

Answer 19

Radiological quality

Question 20

What level: communal faucet system or standpost

Answer 20

Level II

Question 21

What level: point source

Answer 21

Level I

Question 22

What level: waterworks system

Answer 22

Level III

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Level II

Question 24

What level: refer to protected well, improved dug well, developed spring, or rain water cistern

Answer 24

Level I

Question 25

What level: refers to a system with a source transmission pipes, a reservoir, and a piped distribution network for household taps

Answer 25

Level III

Question 26

Two major source of Air Pollution

Answer 26

Mobile Source
Stationary Source

Question 27

Refers to any vehicle/machine propelled by or through oxidation or reduction reactions

Answer 27

Mobile source

Question 28

Refers to any building or fixed structure, facility or installation that emits or may emit any air pollutant

Answer 28

Stationary Source