EESA10H3- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 62 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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"in its broadest sense, environmental health comprises those aspects of human health, disease and injuries that are determined or influenced by factors in the environment. " Industrialization: causes pollution due to chemical release, overpopulation and overconsumption: Leaves a larger carbon footprint: health effects of pollution, air pollution: Increased uv: traces of toxic chemicals, predators, environmental health: Infections (fungi and bacteria): environmental factors are responsible for 25% of all preventable diseases. 5 times higher than those for all nyc residence: case study 1 -- london smog, 1952: Airborne hazards & human health: a man guides a london bus through think fog with a flaming torch during the 1952 great. It came to an end when the monsoon finally occurred: airborne hazards, outdoor air pollution. Sources of outdoor air pollution: primary air pollutants (e. g. , co, so2, no, co2, no2 -- most hydrocarbons/particulates, secondary air pollutants (e. g. , hno2, hno3, h2o2, o3 (ozone -- important), so3, h2so4,
