Prisoner Someone who has been found guilty
Inmate Someone who hasn't been found guilty
Prisoners, military The healthcare of what 2 populations are federally funded?
Risk Something that puts someone susceptible for a disease
Absorption Energy or matter passively entering a thing (EX: Sun being
absorbed into our skin)
Toxicology The study of toxins and poisons
To understand the effects of negative toxin Why do we perform toxicology?
exposure and how to treat it
Smoking, radon gas What are the top 2 causes of lung cancer?
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Because there are thousands of them in the Why do we not know what pollutants cause what effects?
ear
- Carbon monixide (cars) What are the 3 examples of pollutants we can be tested on?
- Nitrogen dioxide (gas/coal/oil)
- Sulfur dioxide (acid rain)
Polluted water What is the leading cause of disease worldwide?
Heart disease (monitor BP and cholesterol) What is a leading cause of disease in the US?
Natural, man-made What are the two types of disasters?
Direct observational therapy RN observes a patient taking their medication
Tertiary Direct observaitonal therapy is what kind of prevention?
- Mosquito bites Stormy, mosquito is Examples of horizontal spread of infection
infected, mosquito bites you
- Stormy sneezes and gives you a disease
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