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Environmental Health:
The basic science that studies the health effects associated with
chemical exposures.
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Microbiology Toxicology
Pharmacology Biology
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What are some examples of environmental actions that have improved
health?
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- Sanitation
- Water quality
- Vector control
- Pasteurization
- Food quality
- Air pollution prevention
- Accident prevention
- Land use management
- Consumer protection (consumer's right to know)
Pollutants:
- #1 source: motor vehicles
- Dust
- Molds
- Lead
- Smoke
Effects:
- Asthma
- CV
- Cancer
- Immune disorders
- Reproductive
, - Nurses practice autonomously with little structure in the homecare setting
- Must be competent and creative
- Home environment lacks resources typically found in health care facilities
- Must gain trust to treat patient in their home
- Must keep safety in mind
- Confused as Ca in brain
- Affects neurologic development, bones, kidneys, and heart
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Program that provides financial assistance to disabled individuals
based on qualifying work history.
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Supplementary Security Income (SSI) TANF
Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) Social Security Disability (SSD)
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Artificially acquired: Passive immunity
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Vaccine; dead or Injection of immune serum
attenuated pathogens (gamma globulin)
Exposure to a mild form of Development of memory cells after
the pathogen infection
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Which level of prevention:
Preventing disease or problems in well people. We use this prevention
before a person or community has a problem.
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Secondary prevention Tertiary prevention
Both primary and secondary
Primary prevention prevention