HTHSCI 2RR3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Antimicrobial Resistance, Ted Mosby, Formaldehyde
18 Sep 2017
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Significant unexplained connections remain between death and disability for many diseases, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and neurological conditions that may be filled by environment. The interconnectedness of the world through bade, travel, and migration means that risk appears to be democratized, with all the world apparently at risk and little protection from such environmental exposure. It is useful here to limit the definition of environment to the biophysical and chemical surroundings that affect individuals or populations. Mostly they are human influenced or produced and have despoiled the natural environment for decades. Who identifies two sets of hazards that lead to human vulnerability. Modem hazards are associated with unsustainable development practices and include water pollution from populated areas, industry. and intensive agriculture: urban air pollution from vehicular traffic, coal power stations. and industry; climate change; stratospheric ozone depletion; and transboundary pollution. In a follow-up to its burden of dis- ease report, who refines these hazards into risk factors.
