Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Wabigoon River, Asubpeeschoseewagong First Nation, Robert Lee Bullard
10 May 2016
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Environmental links to health, environmental dispossession, environmental racism, Factors that affect the chances people will have to lead healthy lives. The social, political and economic environments in which people live that determine their health (p. 6) Income, social safety net i. e. , welfare state. She drew attention to the persistent nature of organic compounds common to pesticides and herbicides; chemicals that was used everyday. The petrochemical industry manufactures synthetic products largely using raw materials. When released in the environment, pops are long-lasting and are spread through soil, water, and air. When they enter the body, they accumulate in fatty tissues, and concentration levels increase at high levels of the food chain. First developed in the use of war to control insect and parasite causing diseases. After the war, ddt was applied to crop production so that crop could generate more = more $ farming became more efficient.
