10:832:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Infection, Radiation Therapy, Nuclear Medicine

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Public Health
• Course: 10:832:101
• Professor: franzione

Document Summary

Introduction: health is affected by the quality of the environment. Includes air we breathe, water we drink, food we eat, communities in which we live: regulatory measures address environmental assaults. Environmental health the study and management of environmental conditions that affect health and well-being. Environmental hazards risks of injury, disease, or death. Surface water: water in streams, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, groundwater, aquifers. Located under surface of the ground: porous, water-saturated layers of underground bedrock, sand, and gravel that can yield economically significant amounts of water, o(cid:374)ly 0. 003% of earth"s (cid:449)ater is a(cid:448)aila(cid:271)le for hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) use. Types of water pollutants: classified as biological and nonbiological, runoff a problem, can cause human illness, biological pollutants of water. Living organisms or their products that make water unsafe for human consumption. Examples: viruses, bacteria, parasites: cause a variety of diseases, water borne diseases. I(cid:374)fe(cid:272)tious diarrhea is o(cid:374)e of the (cid:373)ost pre(cid:448)ale(cid:374)t of the (cid:449)orld"s (cid:449)ater(cid:271)or(cid:374)e diseases.