Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Escherichia Coli, Neoliberalism, Persistent Organic Pollutant
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Lecture 17: environmental links to health, environmental dispossession, environmental racism, What are the shd: factors that afect the chances people will have to lead healthy lives, the social, poliical and economic environments in which people live that determine their health. Includes: housing, job security, working condiions, educaion, income, social safety > i. e. welfare state, food security and quality, social class capitalism, gender sexism, race racism. A process that happens in between groups, at an insituional level and throughout culture: aboriginal status racism, colonizaion. What is the relaionship between the environment and health: the physical environment: air, land, water. Rachel carson: drew atenion to environmental ruin ater wwii, calling into quesion the chemicals that were used in every day things (i. e. pesicide, silent spring how the bird stopped singing because of industrial polluion. Book was quesioned by the agricultural chemical industry: ddt, a founder of the environmental movement (petrochemical, nuclear) Estrogen is necessary for the health development of reproducive organs.