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Section4 Flashcards

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Ha the right to access and benefit from scientific advancement while being protected from misuse

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Universal Declaration of Human Rights (A-27)

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Prioritizes global citizen well-being and urges members state to implement protocols

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UNESCO (Recommendation on the status of scientific research) (A-4) (1974)

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To enhace support for equitqble scientific capacity

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UNESCO (Declaration on the use of scientific Knowledge) (A-33) (1999)

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  • Frameworks used to deal with biodiversity on a national level
  • An entegral component of the convention on Biological Diversity
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Biodiversity mainstreaming

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An infectious disease transmitted from animals to humans

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Zoonosis

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What are the 2 types of protection mechanism against zoonosis

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Dilution - unable to achive optimal concentration to thrive, quickly dies out
Buffer - genetic diversity allows it to adapt to the virus, becoming resistant and preventing further spread

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A broad range of concepts revolving around the protection of the environment

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Environmentalism

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The core of the environmentalist movement

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Environmental awareness

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It aims in protecting the environment

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Pro-environmental behavior (PEB)

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Behavior in which consumers demand or purchase products and service that underwent eco-friendly production

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Green consumerism

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What are the5 drivers of biodiversity

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  • land and sea use change
  • overexploitation
  • climate change
  • pollution
  • invasive alien species
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The most common level of biodiversity

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Species Diversity

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What are the Three levels of Biodiversity

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  • Genetic Diversity
  • Species Diversity
  • Ecosystem Diversity
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It is the least observable Biodiversity
It refers to the gene tool or total genetic information that exists in all the microorganism and humans

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Genetic Diversity

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What are the three elements of the Epidemiologic Triangle (ET)

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  • Agent
  • Host
  • Environment
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Answers the question “what’’ of the outbreak

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Agent

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Answers the question “who” of the outbreak

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Host

18
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Answers the question “where” of the outbreak

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Environment

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Refers to the varioations in ecosystem within a geographical location
A variety of habitats and is a complex level of diversity

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Ecosystem Diversity

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It is the number of species that thrive in a certain location

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Species richness

21
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A model to understand the spread, mitigation an treatment of infectous diseases

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Epidemiologic Triangle (ET)

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What are 2 most common Diagnostic Test

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  • molecular test
  • Anitgen test or rapid test
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The three C’s that can trasmit diseases

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  • Crowded places
  • Close-contact setting
  • confined
24
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He argued the philosophy of utilitarianism, a moral theory which states that “actions should be judge rigth or wrong based on whether they maximize pleasure an minimize pain among the affecte people”
“Philosophical radicals”

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Jeremy Bentham

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He would not publish the germ theory, which proposes that microspic organims where the cause of diseases among humans

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Louis Pasteur

26
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It is also known as the “Broad Street Cholera outbreak” or “Golden square outbreak”
“Miasma” or “Bad air theory”

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Cholera Outbreak

27
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An english physician leader in the development of medical hygiene
Father of epidemiology

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John Snow

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What are the 4 types of benefits of biodiversity to humans

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  • nutritional
  • cultural
  • health
  • climate-related
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A state of complete mental, physical and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease of infirmity

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Health

30
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Achieving this tend to feel a greater sense of calm, purpose and mindfulness

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Spiritual Health

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This focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of individual patients

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Healthcare

32
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Focuses on the protection and promotion of health on the entire population

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Public Health

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This is a persons emotional, social, and phychological well-being

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Mental Health

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This is having bodily functions, process and systems all working at their peak

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Physical Health

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It defines health as “the ability to adapt”
It was published as editorial in 2009

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The lancet

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An American bacteriologist considered to be leading figure of 20th century public health

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Charles-Edward A. Winslow

37
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A major milestone of the 20th century public health as it identified primary healthcare as the key of achievement of “Health for All”

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Declaration of Alma Alta

38
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Who was credited for the invention of Enigma

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Arthur Scherbius

39
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What does the abbreviation (PAPA) means?

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  • Privacy
  • Accuracy
  • Property
  • Accessiblity
40
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Who was the founder of the world economic forum (4IRs)

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Klaus Schwab

41
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Was credited for the invention of the Harvard Mark 1

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Howard H. Aiken

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