Starting Vocab + Hazards

Question 1

Environmental Health

Answer 1

Focuses on factors in our environment that cause disease

Question 2

Disease

Answer 2

Any abnormal change to the body’s condition that impairs bodily function

There are 2 types- communicable (infections) and non-communicable (non-infectious)

Question 3

Morbidity

Answer 3

Causing illness

Question 4

Mortality

Answer 4

Causing DEATH

Question 5

Risk

Answer 5

How bad something is + how likely it is to happen

Severity+ probability

Question 6

Physical hazards

Answer 6

Result from processes in nature. Example: UV rays from the sun may give you a sunburn

Question 7

Precautionary Principle

Answer 7

We do not need to know all of the details in order to take action on something that can possibly be harmful in the future. Instead, we can take precautions earlier to circumvent any possible harm. Better be safe than sorry

Question 8

Chemical hazards

Answer 8

Synthetic chemical hazards. Coming from things like pesticides and even natural toxins like venom.

Question 9

Biological hazards

Answer 9

Any hazard coming from another organism. Ex: parasites, bacteria, infectious disease, viruses

Question 10

Cultural Hazards

Answer 10

Hazards that derive from how or where you live your life.

Ex: lung cancer because you smoke. Obesity because you don’t have access to healthy affordable food

Question 11

Geo-hazards

Answer 11

Hazards that come from thi by s like natural disasters. Think about the lithospheres. From tectonic movement. People can exacerbate these hazards.

Subset of physical (nature) hazards

Ex:earthquakes,volcanes,landslides,tsunami’s,ext.

Question 12

Infectious disease

Answer 12

Can be spread from person to person. Caused from the invasion of a pathogen into the body. (A foreign organism making you sick)

Question 13

Non- infectious disease

Answer 13

Disease not caused by foreign organism. Happen due to environment, genetics, and lifestyle

Question 14

Why has lifespan increased? Why aren’t we all dead yet?

Answer 14

Modern medicine,nutrition, and science.

Our nutrition is better because we can produce way more food than we could before for example. (This is why our carrying capacity has gone up significantly and the world can support more people and also why our environmental footprint has increased.)

People no longer die from something like the flu that they used to die from in mass amounts, we now die from more gradual things. No infectious diseases like heart disease