HLTH 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Environmental Health, Frozen Food, Methylphenidate
26 Dec 2015
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To provide conceptual grounding in, and connections between, interdisciplinary knowledge in environmental health. To confront basic (cartesian) assumption in environment health knowledge, Health: environner(old french, environ (contemporary, haelth(old germanic, sante(latin) Our surroundings keep us whole, safe and sound. Digestive: how our bodies move in space. Abiotic (non-living: chemical (elements, inorganic and organic compunds) Bpa (inorganic: physical (temperature/heat, sounds, precipitation, topology, electromagnetic radiation) Injuries: mechanical (built environment, transportation systems, workplaces) How safe or how not safe these things are. Social: other animals (including humans, interpersonal (home, family, community (neighborhoods, institutional (workplaces, schools, virtual (social media) How does external environment get into us: ingesting, injecting, absorption, radiation, inhaling, virtual space (facebook) Children are smaller and therefore more exposure is deadly: young children put everything in their mouth. Think contextually: the mandela of health: environment which includes pollution and much more. Environment health professions: environmental science, ecologist, toxicologist, environment studies, social scientist, environmental manager.
