Week 4-1

Question 1

History of Enviromental Security

Answer 1

Irish Potato Famine of the 1840’s

Potatoes were not growing in Ireland

Question 2

How can environmental events destabilize an area?

Answer 2

Stability ((Inertia, Constancy, Resillience)

Sustainability

Supply and Demand

Carrying capacity

Question 3

Public Health

Answer 3

Use of the sciences of epidemiology, medicine, sociology, microbiology and health education to investigate and protect the health of a population

Question 4

Epidemiology

Answer 4

The discipline within public health that investigates the causes and pathways of diseases and injuries, as well as their distribution within a population

Question 5

Surveillance

Answer 5

The monitoring of behavior, in this case the behavior (Infection pattern) of an infectious disease.

Question 6

Pandemic

Answer 6

An epidemic that affects the entire world, or substantial portions of it

(Spanish flu of 1918)

Question 7

Etiology

Answer 7

the causes and pathway of a disease

Question 8

Maximum population =

Answer 8

carrying population

Question 9

What percentage of USTRANSCOM flights were natural disaster related between 1989 and 2001?

Answer 9

25%