EESA10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Natural Disaster, Environmental Health, Natural Hazard
18 Apr 2016
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Science tells us that environment is a complex system of living things and natural. Environmental health if rooted in scientific understand of the world. Radiation, noise, airborne reactions, genetically modified food dust particles, mechanical injury hazard. Genetic traits doesn"t associate with it, such as, health risks associated with chromosomal defects that cases down syndrome are not environmental health hazards. Social or behavioral hazards such as poverty or drug use are seen as outside of. Traditional concept of environment is human-centred with everything around us defined environmental health hazard. Environmental health focus more on man-made (anthropogenic) hazards than natural: e. g. natural disaster as outside of environmental health but it often creates environmental health hazards. Today"s society is full of stuffs (appliances, electronic gadgets, household chemicals)
