HEALTH Flashcards
Is a social unit of any size that shares common values or is situated in a given geographical area.
COMMUNITY
The interventions that focus on the individual or family
PRIMARY HEALTH
Are the activities that focus on the environment
SECONDARY HEALTH
Refers to the interventions that take place in the hospital setting
TERTIARY HEALTH
The introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change.
Pollution
It is the release of chemicals and particulates into the atmosphere: common gaseous pollutant includes carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and nitrogen oxides produced by industry and motor vehicles.
Air Pollution
Include light trespass, over illumination, and astronomical interferences
Light Pollution
Is the criminal throwing of inappropriate man-made objects, unremoved onto public and private properties?
Littering
Encompasses roadway noise, aircraft noise, industrial noise, as well as high-intensity sonar.
Noise Pollution
This contamination occurs when chemicals are released by spill or underground leakage. Among the most significant contaminants are hydrocarbons, heavy metals, herbicides, pesticides, and chlorinated hydrocarbons.
Soil Contamination
This contamination resulting from 20th century activities in atomic physics, such as nuclear power generation and nuclear weapons research, manufacture, and deployment
Radioactive Contamination
It is a temperature change in natural water bodies caused by human influence, such as use of water as coolant in a power plant
Thermal Pollution
Can refer to the presence of overhead power lines, motorway billboards, scarred landforms (as from strip mining), open storage of trash, and municipal solid waste.
Visual Pollution
Involves the accumulation of plastic products in the environment that adversely affects wildlife, wildlife habitat, or humans.
Plastic Pollution
It is the discharge of waste water from commercial and industrial waste into surface waters, discharges of untreated domestic sewage and chemical contaminants, release of waste and contaminants into surface run off flowing to surface waters, waste disposal and leaching into groundwater. Eutrophication, and littering.
Water Pollution
EFFECTS OF POLLUTION IN PEOPLE (5)
a. Sulfur oxides
b. Carbon Monoxide
c. Nitrogen Oxide
d. Hydrocarbons
e. Particles of dust, soot, and ashes in the air
It can cause injuries from broken bottles, rusted metal objects resulting in cuts, and slippery constituents resulting in falls. It is also generating methane gas which is highly inflammable so it is also a fire hazard.
As a liquid that forms as water trickles through contaminated areas. When this combines with other chemicals, they may result in hazardous substances entering surface water, ground water, or soil.
Improper Waste Disposal
It may not only affect the surface soil but most likely to pollute bodies of water and kill all types of marine life and destroy beautiful coral reefs. General impacts of illegal mining include productivity loss of agriculture and fisheries, biodiversity loss, and toxic and hazardous contamination.
Illegal Mining
Its effects have led to increased pollution and sedimentation in streams and rivers. Clogging these waterways, and causing declines in fish and other species.
Soil Erosion
It is a method of collecting live fish mainly for use in aquariums which involves spraying sodium cyanide into the desired fish’s habitat to stun the fish. The practice hurts only the target population but also kills coral polyps and algae, turning many coral reefs into marine deserts.
Cyanide Fishing
It is an airborne movement of pesticides away from the intended target. It can affect both urban and rural communities by having negative effects on human health and the environment.
Pesticide Drift
It is the clearing or removal of the Earth’s Forest on a massive scale often resulting in the damage to the quality of the land.
Deforestation
It is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially marine areas, due to human activity.
Oil Spills
Coral reefs are dying around the world. Coral mining, pollution, overfishing, blast fishing, and the digging of canals and access to island and bays are serious threats to these ecosystems. They also face dangers from diseases, destructive fishing practices, and warming oceans.
Coral Reef Degradation
Refers to change in average weather conditions that last for an extended period of time. It is caused by factors such as biotic processes, variations, in solar radiation received by the Earth, plate tectonics, and volcanic eruptions.
Climate Change
A chemical substances that alters perceptions, mood, or behavior.
PSYCHOACTIVE DRUGS
A type of stimulant which is a local methamphetamine mixed with caffeine. This stimulant is believed to be the drug choice
of 90% of Philippines illegal substance users.
Shabu
A type of stimulant which abusers are found to have reduced motor skills and impaired verbal learning as a result of alterations in the activity of dopamine
Methamphetamine
A type of stimulant which is made from the leaves of the coca shrub which grows in the mountain regions of South American
countries. It is not normally prescribed therapeutically but as a local anesthetic particularly in
ophthalmology
Cocaine
