EESA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Volatile Organic Compound, Smog, Radon
2 Mar 2016
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Included here, these notes are on what is said in addition to slides on blackboard. Effects on health: stress, pet at home. Genetics aren"t factors of environment but they affect health: can make you more susceptible. Physical hazards are natural disasters so they are not part of environmental health. Exception: volcanoes because of the gases released: gases carried through atmosphere. Not a part of this course/ area of study. Down syndrome is not impacted by environment. Not part of this area of study. No part of the body is immune. All species of frogs are declining- this is an indicator of potential problem for human health. Poor water contributes to diarrhea in developing countries. People would heat their homes more; used coal/ sulphur gasses. This had not happened before but different weather made it more concentrated because of the cold. They reduced use of coal, became more of a clean city because animals came back.
