EESA10H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Indoor Air Quality, Air Pollution, Passive Smoking
18 Jul 2018
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Core concerns of environmental health: focus on chemical, biological, physical hazards, interactions with genetic traits and with social/behavioral stressors, emphasis on anthropogenic hazards, more than just pollution, population perspective. Environmental crisis: human alteration of earth: atmosphere: co2 increased 30% since the beginning of the industrial revolution, geosphere: 1/3 to 1/2 of the land surface has been transformed by human action, biosphere, industrialization, overpopulation and overconsumption. Environment - everything that affects a living organism. Effects of environment on human health is great: Genetic makeup: increases exposure to an environmental risk factor, increases susceptibility to an environmental risk factor, and environmental factor are independent risk factors. Comprises aspects of human health, disease and injuries determined or influenced by factors in environment. Includes study of both direct and indirect pathological effects of: chemical, biological, physical (man-made)- housing, urban development, land use, transportation. Declining health of other organisms is the clearest indicator of environmental threats to human health.
