PHC 3302 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Wildlife, Public Health, Earth
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Identify current issues in the environmental health field: describe employment opportunities in the field of environmental health. Infrastructure and surveillance: global environmental health, environmental health threats, trash that fouls our beaches, hazardous wastes leaching from disposal sites. Includes radioactive wastes: continuing episodes of air pollution in some areas, exposures to toxic chemicals, destruction of the land through deforestation, populatio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d e(cid:374)(cid:448)i(cid:396)o(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t: the th(cid:396)ee p"s, principal determinants of health worldwide, pollution, combustion of fossil fuels (ex. Examples include the release of: acid rain precursors, ozone-depleting chemicals, greenhouse gases, population growth. Increasing at an exponential rate: threatens to overwhelm available resources, may cause periodic food scarcity and famine in some areas of the world, causes: Indicates how many births a woman would have by the end of her reproductive life. Overall, the population remains small: stage 2, mortality rates drop and fertility rates remain high.
