CAS BI 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lower Respiratory Tract Infection, Indoor Air Quality, Acute Bronchitis
25 Jan 2017
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Physical, chemical and biological factors external to a person. Assessment and control of factors that affect health. Ex: allergens, radiation, noise, accidents, injuries, environmental hazards. Alleviate and prevent human suffering not merely absence of disease. Environmental factors are omnipresent and unavoidable, and we have to adapt to them when they effect our health. Effects that global burden of disease- all effected by environmental factors. High income country- 20% of lris are attributable to environmental causes. Air pollution, cigarette smoke, inadequate nutrition during and prior to pregnancy, teratogens. Pesticide use can also have negative health consequences. 2. 5l of clean water per person per day. 48% of population in low-income countries lack access to water. Environmental health problems tend to impact the world"s poor and those with. Environmental health problems tend to impact the world"s poor and those with weak immune systems not an equally distributed burden.
