EESA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Environmental Hazard, Environmental Health, Environmental Disease
18 Nov 2016
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Environmental health: (ealth talking about human health. What is happening in the environment and how it can impact your health. In this room, can be the air in this room. The quality of water you are drinking. Everything around you, had an impact on you: stress, noise, food, water. Environment is everything that affects a living organism. What else impacts your health: genetics make us more prone to diseases. This is where environment and genetics combine. Genetic increase your exposure to an environmental risk factor: makes more susceptible to environment, in this case they combine. But they can act independently: some genetic diseased are purely genetic. Human health, disease, injuries that are determined by factors in environment. Chemical hazards: picture is pesticides in greenhouse. Look at what he is wearing, and he is spraying pesticides which are going into our food and entering the food chain.
