Week 2: Health and the Environment

Question 1

Natural capital

Answer 1

Ultimate means
Sustains us
Includes solar energy, biosphere, earth materials, biogeochemical cycles

Question 2

Ecological footprint

Answer 2

What is needed to support individual life

Question 3

GDP

Answer 3

Measure of all financial transactions

Increases when there is oil spill: insurance pay out, increase in jobs

Question 4

Living planet index

Answer 4

How animal populations are doing
Biodiversity is lost 1000x faster than natural
Biodiversity and biocapacity are not shared equally among nations
Distance between production and consumption prevent negative feedback from over-exloited ecosystems

Question 5

Who definition of health

Answer 5

A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

Question 6

Public health

Answer 6

Science/art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals

Question 7

Environmental health

Answer 7

Branch of public health that protects against the effects of environmental hazards and ecological balances

Question 8

John Snow

Answer 8

Cholera

Question 9

Rachel Carson

Answer 9

Toxicologist

Wrote silent spring

Question 10

9% of chronic disease

Answer 10

Traditional environmental pollutants

Question 11

70-90% of chronic disease

Answer 11

Break environmental determinants

Diet, inactivity, smoking