POL250Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Trachea, Asthma, Disparate Impact
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*environmental burden of disease, a phrase used to refer to the mortality and morbidity ( the number of deaths, cases of illnesss, and disabilities) caused by exposure to preventable environmental hazards. * deaths and illness caused by environmental factors. * but, this is complicated, most chronic disease are multifactorial, meaning they result from. (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:373)ple(cid:454) i(cid:374)tera(cid:272)tio(cid:374) of lifest(cid:455)le, so(cid:272)io-economic, environmental, cultural, and genetic factors o(cid:448)er the (cid:272)ourse of a perso(cid:374)"s lifeti(cid:373)e(cid:863) (cid:894)4(cid:1012)(cid:895) * how we estimate it is: the burden of disease if first calculated for a given affliction or for a number of diseases of interest. The ebd is then calculated as the percentage of the overall burden of disease attributable to a specific environmental risk factor or group of risk factors. * the single largest environmental risk factor is air pollution. * cancer may be caused by a genetic disorder not necessarily by the environment but boyd is look at the cases the environment causes.
