EESA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Passive Smoking, Venomous Snake, Environmental Health
16 Jan 2019
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Your environment is your health: environment consists of- Anything that affects a living organism: air, water, whatever surrounds you, man-made environment, chemicals in the stuff" around us. Indoor air: other factors including your health include, genetic makeup: Increases susceptibility to risk factor: what is environmental health, study of both direct and indirect pathological effects of various: Physical (only man-made; not natural disasters like earthquakes: chemical hazard (chemicals in air, water, soil, and food) Fertilizers (its effects on nitrogen and drinking water) Heavy metals (eg. mercury: biological hazard. Chemicals in tobacco (not actually smoking itself: pollution caused by it, second hand smoke (even third hand smoke!, genetic traits. Ex: not enough proof that cause of down syndrome is environmental so it won"t be studied: environmental health: Takes a population to study (i. e. one person getting sick because of an environmental issue does not make it an issue for: environmental health: global scale. Nothing in the ecosystem ever goes away.
