WEEK 4 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH Flashcards
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What is environmental health?
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- Relates to how air, water, food, and our physical environment can affect our health, for better or for worse
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What are the 4 key concepts of environmental health?
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- Exposure
- Pathways of contaminants
- Risk
- Precautionary principle
3
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1 - What is exposure?
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- Any condition which provides an opportunity for an external environmental agent to enter the body.
4
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What are some examples of exposure?
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- Smog: CVD, resp disease
- Lead: neurotoxicity
- Pesticides: neurological disease
- Water quality: diarrheal disease
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2 - What are the pathways of contaminants? (5)
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- Source
- Medium
- Point of contact
- Receptor of contaminant
- Route of exposure
6
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What are examples of pathways of contaminants?
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- Source: pain, pipes, toys
- Medium: soil, manufactured goods, water
- Point of contact: community, home
- Receptor of contaminant: children
- Route of exposure: ingestion
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3 - What are risks?
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- The probability of exposure of a susceptible individual to the hazard
8
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What is a hazard?
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- Property that leads to adverse outcomes
9
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What is susceptibility?
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- Property of the receptor (host) affected by the hazard
10
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What is exposure?
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- Property of the environment
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4 - What is the precautionary principle?
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- Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation
12
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Who is vulnerable to exposure?
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- Very young and very old
- Underlying health conditions
- Socioeconomic status
- Housing and community infrastructure
- Geography and geopolitical location
- Access to supports and services and basic needs
13
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What is environmental injustice?
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- Inequitable exposure of poor, minority and disenfranchised pop. to toxic chemicals, contaminated air and water, unsafe workplaces, and other forms of pollution
14
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What is the DPSEEA framework?
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- Driving forces
- Pressure
- State
- Exposure
- Effects
- Action
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What is an example of driving forces?
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- Population growth
- Economic development
- Technology
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What is an example of Pressure?
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- Production
- Consumption
- Waste release
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What is an example of State?
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- Natural hazards
- Resources available
- Pollution levels
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What is an example of Exposure?
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- External exposure
- Absorbed dose
- Target organ dose
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What is an example of Effects?
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- Wellbeing
- Morbidity
- Mortality
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What is Action?
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- Preventative or remedial
- Targets different populations on the framework
21
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What is the Indigenous Wholistic Framework? (4)
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- Respect
- Relevance
- Reciprocity
- Responsibility
22
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What is respect?
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- Respect: Respecting all who live on the planet
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What is Relevance?
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- Relevance: Developing a relationship with nature that has a personal meaning
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What is Reciprocity?
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- Reciprocity: Replenishing what we take from Mother Earth
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What is Responsibility?
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- Responsibility: Being a steward for the earth and the 7 generations to come
