PUBH 114 Midterm Exam UPDATED ACTUAL Questions And Correct Answers
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Terms in this set (211)
Environment definition #1 The circumstances, objects, conditions by which one is surrounded
Environment definition #2 The complex of physical, chemical, and biotic factors (claimant, soil, living things)
the act upon an organism or an ecological community, and ultimately determine
its form and survival
Define environmental health, world health organization Comprises, aspects of human health, including quality of life, that are determined
by physical, chemical, biological social, and psychosocial factors in the
environment. It also refers to the theory and practice of assessing correct, and
controlling, and preventing those factors in the environment that can potentially, if
I could virtually the health of present and future generations.
Define environmental health, national Association of city Environmental health focuses on the health into relationships between people
and county health officials and their environment, promotes human health and well-being, and fosters a safe
and health full environment
Define environmental health, European charter on Environmental health includes both the direct pathological affects of chemicals,
environment and health radiation, and some biological agents, and the effects, often indirect on health
and well-being of the broader, physical, psychological, social, and aesthetic
environment, which includes housing, urban development, land-use, transport
Define environmental health, agency for toxic Branch of public health that protects against the effects of environmental hazards
substances, and disease registry that can adversely affect health, or the ecological balances, essential to human
health and environmental quality
What were ancient challenges of environmental health? Food safety
clean water
Indoor air pollution (Indoor fires)
WaSH (water, sanitation, hygiene)
What were the environmental health challenges during - Rapid growth of cities
the industrial revolution? - Intensified, ancient challenges (food, water, hygiene, sanitation, indoor pollution
- industrial workplaces (mines, Mills, factories)
- Air pollution
- urban challenges
What are modern environmental health challenges? Toxic chemicals
Radiation
UVA rays aging rays, penetrate to dermis destroying collagen and elastin
UVB rays Shorter, burning rays that are stronger than UVA rays.
, SPF tells you how much protection against ____________ UVB radiation
______________
John Graunt (1620-1674) Weekly death records
Demographics contribute to death
"Bills of Mortality" in London
Charles Turner Thackrah (1795-1833) Blood blazes
Cause and effect of sicknesses
Morbidity and mortality
William Farr (1807-1883) - developed centralized registration system for disease classification
- Took what Graunt came up w and made diagrams
- Diagram, representing mortality from cholera in different elevations, 1848-49
-Epidemiology: the study of disease
Looking at numbers
Edwin Chadwick (1800-1890) Urban reformer. Became obsessed with eliminating poverty and squalor in urban
areas. He concluded that the many diseases people were getting were a result of
the unhealthy living conditions.
Social epidemiology
Things around us in society that can cause disease
Correlated social factors with death??
What did John Snow (1813-1858) do? Doctor IN LONDON
1854 COLERA OUTBREAK IN LONDON
WATER BORNE DISEASE
MAP AND DEMOGRAPHICALLY LOOKED AT THE CASES
LOOK AT COMMON DENOMINATOR
FOUND OUT CHOLERA CASES GETTING WATER FROM CERTAIN STREET PUMP
ROLE OF ENVIRONMENTAL Health in Improving Life Expectancy
INFLUENCE TODAY: Now have sewer systems, water treatment plants
What outbreak did Jon Snow investigate? And when? Cholera, 1854
In the cholera outbreak where did Jon Snow find out it The same Street water pump
was coming from
What is the role of environmental health in improving life Chamber pots —> municipal sewage systems
expectancy? Contaminated water —> water treatment plants/potable
Individualists emphasize what Personal independence, autonomy, liberty
Collectivist emphasize what The value of group, norms, and action
Promoting the common good
Achieving social justice
Providing social support and identity
Is individual or collective action essential in Collective action
environmental health?
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Terms in this set (211)
Environment definition #1 The circumstances, objects, conditions by which one is surrounded
Environment definition #2 The complex of physical, chemical, and biotic factors (claimant, soil, living things)
the act upon an organism or an ecological community, and ultimately determine
its form and survival
Define environmental health, world health organization Comprises, aspects of human health, including quality of life, that are determined
by physical, chemical, biological social, and psychosocial factors in the
environment. It also refers to the theory and practice of assessing correct, and
controlling, and preventing those factors in the environment that can potentially, if
I could virtually the health of present and future generations.
Define environmental health, national Association of city Environmental health focuses on the health into relationships between people
and county health officials and their environment, promotes human health and well-being, and fosters a safe
and health full environment
Define environmental health, European charter on Environmental health includes both the direct pathological affects of chemicals,
environment and health radiation, and some biological agents, and the effects, often indirect on health
and well-being of the broader, physical, psychological, social, and aesthetic
environment, which includes housing, urban development, land-use, transport
Define environmental health, agency for toxic Branch of public health that protects against the effects of environmental hazards
substances, and disease registry that can adversely affect health, or the ecological balances, essential to human
health and environmental quality
What were ancient challenges of environmental health? Food safety
clean water
Indoor air pollution (Indoor fires)
WaSH (water, sanitation, hygiene)
What were the environmental health challenges during - Rapid growth of cities
the industrial revolution? - Intensified, ancient challenges (food, water, hygiene, sanitation, indoor pollution
- industrial workplaces (mines, Mills, factories)
- Air pollution
- urban challenges
What are modern environmental health challenges? Toxic chemicals
Radiation
UVA rays aging rays, penetrate to dermis destroying collagen and elastin
UVB rays Shorter, burning rays that are stronger than UVA rays.
, SPF tells you how much protection against ____________ UVB radiation
______________
John Graunt (1620-1674) Weekly death records
Demographics contribute to death
"Bills of Mortality" in London
Charles Turner Thackrah (1795-1833) Blood blazes
Cause and effect of sicknesses
Morbidity and mortality
William Farr (1807-1883) - developed centralized registration system for disease classification
- Took what Graunt came up w and made diagrams
- Diagram, representing mortality from cholera in different elevations, 1848-49
-Epidemiology: the study of disease
Looking at numbers
Edwin Chadwick (1800-1890) Urban reformer. Became obsessed with eliminating poverty and squalor in urban
areas. He concluded that the many diseases people were getting were a result of
the unhealthy living conditions.
Social epidemiology
Things around us in society that can cause disease
Correlated social factors with death??
What did John Snow (1813-1858) do? Doctor IN LONDON
1854 COLERA OUTBREAK IN LONDON
WATER BORNE DISEASE
MAP AND DEMOGRAPHICALLY LOOKED AT THE CASES
LOOK AT COMMON DENOMINATOR
FOUND OUT CHOLERA CASES GETTING WATER FROM CERTAIN STREET PUMP
ROLE OF ENVIRONMENTAL Health in Improving Life Expectancy
INFLUENCE TODAY: Now have sewer systems, water treatment plants
What outbreak did Jon Snow investigate? And when? Cholera, 1854
In the cholera outbreak where did Jon Snow find out it The same Street water pump
was coming from
What is the role of environmental health in improving life Chamber pots —> municipal sewage systems
expectancy? Contaminated water —> water treatment plants/potable
Individualists emphasize what Personal independence, autonomy, liberty
Collectivist emphasize what The value of group, norms, and action
Promoting the common good
Achieving social justice
Providing social support and identity
Is individual or collective action essential in Collective action
environmental health?
