EESA10H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Flocculation, Radium Hot Springs, Aquifer
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Lecture 1 understanding the health effects of environmental hazards. Your environment is your health: everything that has an impact on you is your health, good or bad quality has an impact. Gene-environment interaction: models of gene-environment interaction, genetic makeup increases exposure to an environmental risk factor, genetic makeup increases susceptibility to an environmental risk factor, genetic makeup and environmental factor are independent risk factors. What is environmental health: 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 . Who: this includes the study of both the direct and the indirect pathological effects of various, chemical, biological, physical (only man-made, housing, urban development, land use, transportation. Types of hazards: chemical hazard: chemicals in air, water, soil, food, genetically modified food, mercury. Types of hazards: biological hazard: bacteria, viruses, parasites, allergens, animals such as bees and poisonous snakes, can transmit from one to another.