HSC 3102 Lecture Notes - Caulking, Cholera, Asthma

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Health Science
• Course: HSC 3102
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Short/long term health consequences of humans w/ environment: include quality of life, human health, and disease states, biological, chemical, physical, psychological, sociological, grew out of effort to control communicable diseases, pathogens transmitted via animals, sewage, drinking water, food, complexity of issues, has grown over the past decades. Green revolution: cross breeding, induced mutation, gene transfer, precision farming, can reduces hunger in millions but, monoculture, soil degradation, erosion, loss of biodiversity, may lead to lower mortality rates, thus increasing the population without improving the social issues in underdeveloped regions, environmental disease. Lead: mercury, mold, ozone pesticides, infectious diseases, toxins, foodborne illness. Services that assess and evaluate potential environmental risks to human populations to prevent disease and exposure to hazardous agents: responsibility of the government and private citizens to work collaboratively, reducing solid waste, buy recycled/recyclable products with little packaging, avoid using glass to store food, foam/paper cups, recycle paper, plastic, glass, aluminum, recycle electronics, compost pile.