Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Endocrine Disruptor, Persistent Organic Pollutant, Precautionary Principle

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 1002A/B
• Professor: Jessica Polzer

Document Summary

Environmental racism, and justice: critical population health approach, environmental dispossession, environmental racism, endocrine disruptors, precautionary principle, risk assessment, prove harm, manufacturers of illness, pops. Recap - sdh: includes: housing, job security, working conditions, education, income (social safety net ex. welfare state), food security and quality, social class > capitalism, gender > sexism, race > racism, aboriginal status > racism, colonization. Social and political forces also affect our physical environments. Wrote silent spring, referenced in relation to environmental loses: ddt, a founder of the environmental movement. !1: critic of health effects of industry (petrochemical, nuclear) Petrochemical industry and health: pops (persistent organic pollutants) Ddt (p. 145) rst used during the war, used to prevent disease caused by bugs, after the war used for crop production for more ef cient growing eventually banned but still used in many countries. Linked to breast cancer, diabetes, spontaneous miscarriage, impaired neurological development: endocrine disruptors (p. 145) Mimics hormones-environmental estrogen: inhibit or excite depends on the chemical.