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Anita Sego Spring, 2005

Anita Sego Spring, 2005. Chapter Objectives. Define the terms environmental health and environmental hazard. Explain the relationship between environmental sanitation, sanitary engineers, and the prevention of waterbourne disease outbreaks.

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Anita Sego Spring, 2005

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  1. Anita Sego Spring, 2005

  2. Chapter Objectives • Define the terms environmental health and environmental hazard. • Explain the relationship between environmental sanitation, sanitary engineers, and the prevention of waterbourne disease outbreaks. • Explain the meaning of waterbourne, foodbourne, and vectorbourne diseases and give examples of each. • Define the term vector and give examples.

  3. Chapter Objectives • Define pest, pesticides, target organism, and persistent and nonpersistent pesticides. • Identify the major chemical categories of pesticides. • Define environmental tobacco smoke, mainstream smoke, sidestream smoke, and passive smoking. • Describe the legislation in place to deal with environmental tobacco smoke.

  4. Chapter Objectives • Describe the sources of lead in the environment and how progress was made in reducing lead levels during the 1990s. • Define ionizing radiation and give examples. • Explain the dangers of radon gas. • Explain how human activities have increased the risk or skin cancer by altering the environment.

  5. Chapter Objectives • Describe the state of population growth in the world. • Interpret the relationship between population growth and human health. • Outline some solutions to population growth. • Define natural disaster and disaster agent.

  6. Introduction • Environment • the external conditions, circumstances, and influences surrounding and affecting the growth and development of an organism or community of organisms. • Environmental Health • study and management of environmental conditions that affect human health • Environmental Hazards • factors or conditions in the environment that increase the risk of human injury, disease, or death.

  7. Biological Hazards and Human Health • Biological hazards • living organisms, or their products, that increase the risk of disease of death in humans. • Environmental sanitation • the practice of establishing and maintaining health and hygienic conditions on the environment. • Sanitary engineer

  8. Biological Hazards and Human Health • Water-borne diseases • poliovirsus - amoebic dysentery • hepatitis A virus - Giardia • Shigella - Crytosporidium • Cholera • Spread by Feces in Water • municipal water treatment facilities purify water • Outbreaks still occur • Fluoridation

  9. Biological • Food-borne diseases • Salmonella • Clostridium botulinum • Protection • Public Health Inspection by Sanitarians • Hand washing • Outbreaks of food-borne diseases

  10. Vectorbourne Diseases • Standing water provide habitat for • pools • tires • open dumps • Zoonoses • murine typhus • Lyme disease

  11. Vector-Borne Biological Hazards Hazard Agent Vector Disease Virus SLE virus Mosquito St. Louis encephalitis LaCrosse Mosquito LaCrosse encephalitis Rickettsiae R. typhi Flea Murine typhus R. rickettsii Tick Rocky Mt. spotted fever Bacteria Yersinia pestis Flea Bubonic plaque Borrelia burg. Tick Lyme disease Protozoa Plasmodium sp. Mosquito Malaria Nematodes Wuchereria ban. Mosquito Filariasis(elephantiasis)

  12. Chemical Hazards and Human Health • Pesticides • herbicides • insecticides • Target organism • Ideal • inexpensive • kill only target organism • break down rapidly • break down into harmless chemicals

  13. Chemical Hazards and Human Health • Environmental tobacco smoke • sidestream smoke • mainstream smoke • Education • Regulation • Policy

  14. Chemical Hazards and Human Health • Lead • health concerns: anemia, birth defects, bone damage, neurological damage, kidney damage • children at greatest risk • sources: gasoline, water pipes & drinking water tainted by lead leached from landfills

  15. Physical Hazards and Human Health • Radon Contamination • Ultraviolet Radiation

  16. Psychological Hazards and Human Health • Difficult to define and measure • Many mental states associated

  17. Sociological Hazards and Human Health • Often combined with other environmental hazards • Population growth demonstrates sociological hazards

  18. Population Growth • Population growth attributed to • 1. Birth rate • 2. Death rate • 3. Migration • Principles • lag phase • exponential phase • equilibrium phase

  19. Population Growth - S- Curve Equilibrium Phase? Exponential Phase Lag phase

  20. Population Growth • Issues • global warming • acid rain • depletion of the ozone • increasing crime rates • epidemics • Solutions • various methods of conception control • birth control methods • social policies

  21. Natural disasters geophysical & meteorological events involves interaction of disaster agents magnitude of overall loss biological, psychological, & sociological hazards increase Primary needs after a disaster food water shelter health care clothing Federal Emergency Response Agency Site & Location Hazards & Human Health

  22. Natural Disasters • Emergency Support Functions (Federal Agencies) • Transportation (DOT) - Health & medical (DHHS & PHS) • Communications (NCS) - Resources support (GSA) • Construction (DOD) - Urban search & rescue (DOD) • Firefighting (DOA) - Hazardous materials (EPA) • Damage information (FEMA) - Food (DOA) • Mass care (ARC) - Energy (DOE)

  23. Chapter 16 The Impact Of Environment on Human Health

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