HLTA02H3 Chapter 19: Chapter 19
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Intro y env health regulations established through: epidemiology, toxicological risk assessment y precautional principle is by pursuing and lobbying for alterative ways to establish env health regulations through social movement acitivities. Since human pop grows geometrically (exponentiall) while natural resources grow linearly, pop growth will outpace growth of food. Toxic culture y toxic culture is when one in which social arrangements encourage and excuse the deterioration of env and human health. Env health regulations y env health regulations specify the legally permitted amount of dangerous chemicals that industry may dispose of in the commons, or the amount of which people may be exposed. Latency period-the period between exposure and onset of the disease. y. Risk management y deals with social aspects of establishing env health regulations, esp the process through which regulatory agency sets the standards and decides what action to take based on the results of the risk assessment and epidemiological analyses.
