PUBH 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Particulates, Lung Cancer, Built Environment
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Chapter 8 notes: environment, all influences other than genetic influences, including social, economic, and cultural influences, physical environment, unaltered, natural, altered, built environment, unaltered environment, the natural environment, radon increases, lung cancer, exposure to sunlight, skin cancer, melanoma. Includes all impacts of the physical environment as a result of human construction. Includes injuries and exposures in the home, transportation system and where we work and play: cooking, traveling. Influences our safety, activity levels, social interactions, therefore our health. Impact of the physical environment: motor vehicle injuries and exposure to toxic substances, 20% of preventable deaths, 10% of all deaths. Ingestion: direct and indirect exposure to byproducts, absorption, skin, water, drinking, diet, hygiene, transplacental, from mother to child, pathways for weather to affect diarrheal disease, distell causes, proximal causes. Infection hazards: health outcome, environmental impact = population + technology + affluence, toxicology paradigm, exposure.
