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• Environmental quality is an important and indirect determinant of human health
• declining enviro > poor health, QoL, and _____ sustainable development |
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• Environmental quality is an important and _____ determinant of human health
• declining enviro > poor health, QoL, and hinders sustainable development
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| • major challenges to sustainable devpt are posed by: |
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- mismanagement of natural resources,
- excessive waste production
- enviro cond'n that affect health
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| diarrhoeal disease is caused by |
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Definition
- poor sanitation
- poor water supply
- poor food safety
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| air pollution contributes to what diseases? |
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- ARI
- chronic resp disease
- CVD
- CA
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| the occurrence of major vector-borne diseases is r/t: |
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- natural enviro conditions
- water
- agricultural developments
- urbanization
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- poverty
- low access > safe drink water
- poor sanitation
- indoor air pollution
- poor solid waste disposal
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- water pollution
- air pollution
- climate change
- ozone depletion
- transboundary pollution
- land use patter
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| the environment causes almost ___% of all deaths |
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the _____ causes almost 9% of all deaths
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| environment as indirect as well as direct link to poor health |
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Definition
| _____ is a mediating factor between SES and health status |
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| Environment as a health concearn: |
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- it is everywhere
- largely outside of indv ctrl/influence
- poor understood aetiology of many disease
- uncertain science
- impact of background levels of toxins > Body burden studies
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Body Burden
Our bodies harbour: |
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- pesticides,
- flame retardants,
- nicotine-metabolites
- lead
- human-made chemicals
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- death tolls r/t heat stress
- variations b/w cities in heat stress in southern Ontario
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Ecological change and health |
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- Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
- Lyme disease
- Avian Influenza
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Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome |
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| > Rodents + heavy rain = _____ |
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- ticks
- deer
- forest changes
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| > birds, pigs, wet markets, dense settlements = _____ |
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Water, Sanitation, and disease |
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- poor water & sanitation > death
- route for disease transmission
- Typhoid fever
- Cholera
- Hepatitis
- Gladiasis
- Schistosomiasis
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_____-borne diseases > spread through contaminated supply (eg. cryptosporidosis)
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Water-borne diseases > spread through _____ supply (eg. cryptosporidosis)
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Water-_____ diseases > spread by lack of water for hygiene
(eg. e.coli, salmonella, mixing of land users and water users) |
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Water-washed diseases > spread by lack of water for hygiene
(eg. e.coli, salmonella, mixing of _____ users and _____ users)
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water-_____ diseases >
spread by insects via water
(eg misquito-borne disease - malaria, West nile) |
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water-vectored diseases >
spread by _____ via water
(eg misquito-borne disease - malaria, West nile)
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water-based diseases >
spread via aquatic _____ host
(eg. Schistosomiasis, river blindness) |
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water-_____ diseases >
spread via aquatic invertebrate host
(eg. Schistosomiasis, river blindness)
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Air quality affects ppl:
• indoors & outdoors
• _____ & _____ |
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Definition
Air quality affects ppl:
• ____ & ____
• work & home
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| • enviro consequencs of air pollution > noticed in haze & ____ ____ |
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Definition
• enviro consequencs of air pollution > noticed in ____ & reduced visibility
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| exposure to low levels of Ozone, sulphur, nitrogen, particulate matter > irritates _____ & inflammation of ____ ____ |
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Definition
exposure to low levels of Ozone, _____, nitrogen, ____ ____ > irritates eyes & inflammation of resp tract
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| relationship b/w air quality and: |
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| asthma, lung CA, CVD, diabetes, stroke, COPD |
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| Association b/w fine particulate matter (metro areas) and increased risk of death r/t lung CA & _____ |
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Definition
Association b/w fine particulate matter (metro areas) and increased risk of death r/t ____-____ & CDV
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