HSCI 483 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Blood Lead Level, Occupational Hygiene, Edwin Chadwick

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSCI 483
• Professor: Cecilia Sierra-Heredia

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The circumstances, objects or conditions by which one is surrounded (merriam-webster). The complex of physical, chemical, and biotic factors (as climate, soil, and living things) that act upon an organism or an ecological community and ultimately determine its form and survival. Health: a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. (who). Environmental health: environmental health comprises those aspects of human health, including qol, that are determined by physical, chemical, biological, social and psychosocial factors in the environment. Evidence found in caves and other settlements: shelter. Food and water safety: waste sites and mold, rats and other pests (ticks, lice), archeological evidence: sewage systems and water pipes. The evolution of environmental health: industrial era: growth of cities, sanitation issues, poor housing conditions, noise pollution, disease contagion. Industrial workplace: chimney sweepers (london, pollution, accidents, alice hamilton, connections between toxic exposures and illnesses among miners, tradesmen and factory workers in the usa.