PHC4101-Module 4 Quiz with Correct Answers.

What is the objective of environmental health? correct answers as a sub-field of public health, environmental health has as its objective the prevention of diseases of environmental origin What is the aim of environmental health services? correct answers - to protect and enhance environmental quality for all people, so that overall health is preserved or improved - no small task, particularly given the significance of the environment in negative health outcomes WHO estimates that ___ million people died as a result of living or working in an unhealthy environment in 2012 correct answers 12.6 milli nearly 1 in 4 deaths or diseases are caused by environmental factors What is the most important component of environmental heath? correct answers the assessment of environmental risk The assessment of environmental risk is done how? correct answers - done through environmental epidemiology which is made up of surveillance, scientific evaluation, and risk communication Surveillance does what? correct answers gives us a picture of what's happening Scientific evaluation does what? correct answers brings understanding how exposure can lead to outcomes (association and causation) Risk communication does what? correct answers notifies the public in an attempt to mitigate risk Surveillance, scientific evaluation, and risk communication provide the foundation for what? correct answers policy and practice What else are infectious diseases referred to as? correct answers communicable, contagious, or transmissible diseases What are infectious diseases caused by? correct answers the transmission of an infectious agent to humans What are the various pathways for transmission of disease? correct answers 1. direct transmission 2. indirect transmission 3. vector borne transmission 4. airborne transmission