EESA10H3 Lecture Notes - Sandra Steingraber, Diarrhea, Social Environment
9 Oct 2012
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Lecture 1: welcome to human health and the environment eesa10h3. What is the environment: environment is everything that affect a living organism, effect of environment on human health is so great, air, water, soil, manmade environment. Eesa10h3 s there was an outbreak in cholera. It is a big difficulty in developing countries around the world. Environmental health: human population and consumption, human alteration of earth is substantial and growing, protecting the environment has been a mainstay of public health practices since. 1878: environmental factors responsible for 25 % of all preventable diseases, diarrhea and respiratory infections heading in the list, rich & poor, african americans & hispanic & whites, developed & developing countries. Rich and poor: rich people have a nice hose, car, clean water, and good quality nutritious foods to eat, the health care system in the time before the 19th century was a privilege for the rich.
