Enviromemtal Health Lec 1

Question 1

What is environment?

Answer 1

Any object or condition by which is surrounded 

Question 2

Focusing on human health

Environment can be defined as 

Answer 2

 Which is external to individual host, it can divided to physical, chemical, biological social, and cultural factors, any or all can influence the health status in population

Question 3

What is health? 

Answer 3

 state of complete physical, mental, social well-being, and not merely the absens of disease or infirmity 

Question 4

What is environmental health ?

Environmental health

Environment health science

Answer 4

Environmental health Practice of environmental science in support health, wherever it occurs

Environmental health science Study of those factor in environment affecting human health

Question 5

What is the basic requirement for healthy environment?

Answer 5

Safe and sufficient water

Safe and adequate food

Save and peaceful settlement

Clean air

Stable global environment 

Question 6

What is Hazard?

Types of hazard 

Answer 6

Any agent in environment that has the potential to causes an adverse health effects on living organism

Types of hazard,pestside bacteria and viruses, radiation and noise stress 

Question 7

Environmental factors affecting  human health
Physical
Chemical
Biological
Socio, economic

Answer 7

Physical (radiation noise,)

Chemical toxic waste pesticide

Socio economic, standard housing

Biologically bacteria viruses, parasite

Question 8

Environmental health concept

Answer 8

Toxicity,
exposure
does and response
 individuals, susceptibility risk, and benefit
Environmental justice
Community resource and action

Question 9

toxicity

Toxin and toxicant

Toxicant

Toxin

Answer 9

Toxicity any adverse effect, that chemical and physical agent might, produce in a living organism

Toxin and toxicant any agent capable of producing a harmful effect in a biological system

Toxicant produced by human or man made

Toxin  produced naturally 

Question 10

Exposure

Answer 10

The contact between toxicant  and living organism 

Question 11

Does response

Answer 11

Does the amount of hazard that actually enters your body

The larger of the doors, the high is the response 

Question 12

Individual susceptibility

Answer 12

Pregnant women. And we are developing baby

Elderly people who is defense mechanism is much greater

Such people who have weakened in immune system

Infante and children who still developing

Question 13

Risk and Benefit

The side of chemical result

Answer 13

result in Benefit to society

Pesticide , for example, make easier to grow fruit but make people sick

Question 14

Environmental Justice

Answer 14

Everyone has the right to live in an environment that doesn’t make them sick, regardless of their race culture, income

Question 15

Interventions and control of health problem

Clinical intervention model

Public health intervention model

The environmental stewardship model

Answer 15

Clinical intervention model the goal of the physicians is to prevent specific disease from leading to death

Biblical intervention, the public health intervention calls for preventing the development of disease

Environmental stewardship model the goal is to protect humans by preventing environmental, degradation and the resulting impact on health