Public Health

Question 1

What are the risk factors of asthma?

Answer 1

• Family history of atopic disease (e.g. asthma, eczema, allergic rhinitis, or allergic conjunctivitis)
• Co-existence of atopic disease
• Male sex (for pre-pubertal asthma) and female sex (for persistence of asthma from childhood to adulthood)
• Bronchiolitis in infancy
• Parental smoking, including perinatal exposure to tobacco smoke
• Low birthweight and/or Premature birth

Question 2

Which is the most common kind of cancer?

Answer 2

Lung cancer

Question 3

What benefits have been seen following the smoking ban?

Answer 3

• Statistically significant improvements in measured pulmonary function tests
• Significant reductions in self-reported symptoms
• Decrease in small-sized premature babbas
• Decrease in heart attack rates

Question 4

What are some of the indoor causes of lung disease?

Answer 4

• Asbestos
• Mould
• Cooking smoke
• Passive smoking
• Nanoparticles?

Question 5

What are some of the outdoor causes of lung disease?

Answer 5

Air/traffic pollution

Question 6

What are some of the causes of water scarcity?

Answer 6

• Climate change
• Increased global population which uses freshwater for farming
• Increased allocations of water for cities, agriculture and industries
• Increased tension, conflict and environmental strain