NURS 6100 final exam Questions With Complete Solutions
Environmental Factors
The accumulation of physical, chemical, biological, social,
cultural, economic, psychosocial and political conditions that
influence the lives of communities.
An estimated 24% of the global burden of disease and 23% of
all deaths can be attributed to environmental factors
Environmental Exposures
Herbicides
Pesticides
Other chemical carcinogens
Lead
Radiation
What Is Environmental Health?
Freedom from illness or injury related to exposure to toxic
agents and other environmental conditions that are potentially
detrimental to human health.
-if you have environmental health
,Those aspects of human health, disease, and injury that are
determined or influenced by factors in the environment.
-physical and social environment
Healthy People 2020 Objectives for Environmental Health
Eliminate elevated lead blood levels in children.
Minimize risks posed by hazardous sites.
Reduce significant pesticide exposures.
Reduce the amount of toxic pollutants.
Reduce indoor allergen levels.
Decrease lead-based paint or related hazards.
Environmental Health Sciences
Toxicology
Epidemiology
Geographic information systems
Multidisciplinary approaches
Toxicology
,basic science that studies health effects associated with chemical
exposures both quanity and time of exposure
Sometimes called the study of poisons
Negative effects of chemicals
Pollutants have multiple routes into the body
Epigenetics: hazardous changes to DNA
Individuals have unique responses
Chemical “families”
most can cross blood brain barrier and placenta barrier
Epidemiology
Studies the strength of association between exposures and
health effects
Uses
-Occupational
-Environmental
Epidemiologic triangle
-Agent
-Host
-Environment
Geographic Information Systems
, Coding data
-Relates it to a place on Earth (“mapping”)
GIS community-based maps
-Educate communities and local policy makers
-Provide graphic depictions of public health (PH) problems
-show community members where certain issues are
-ex: infant mortality and other acute and chronic illnesses to
show how it affects communities
Multidisciplinary Approaches
Earth sciences help to explain how pollutants travel in air, water,
and soil.
-Geologists
-Meteorologists
-Physicist
-Chemists
Key public health professionals:
-Food safety specialists
-Sanitarians
-Radiation specialists
-Industrial hygienists
Nurse's Role in EH
Environmental Factors
The accumulation of physical, chemical, biological, social,
cultural, economic, psychosocial and political conditions that
influence the lives of communities.
An estimated 24% of the global burden of disease and 23% of
all deaths can be attributed to environmental factors
Environmental Exposures
Herbicides
Pesticides
Other chemical carcinogens
Lead
Radiation
What Is Environmental Health?
Freedom from illness or injury related to exposure to toxic
agents and other environmental conditions that are potentially
detrimental to human health.
-if you have environmental health
,Those aspects of human health, disease, and injury that are
determined or influenced by factors in the environment.
-physical and social environment
Healthy People 2020 Objectives for Environmental Health
Eliminate elevated lead blood levels in children.
Minimize risks posed by hazardous sites.
Reduce significant pesticide exposures.
Reduce the amount of toxic pollutants.
Reduce indoor allergen levels.
Decrease lead-based paint or related hazards.
Environmental Health Sciences
Toxicology
Epidemiology
Geographic information systems
Multidisciplinary approaches
Toxicology
,basic science that studies health effects associated with chemical
exposures both quanity and time of exposure
Sometimes called the study of poisons
Negative effects of chemicals
Pollutants have multiple routes into the body
Epigenetics: hazardous changes to DNA
Individuals have unique responses
Chemical “families”
most can cross blood brain barrier and placenta barrier
Epidemiology
Studies the strength of association between exposures and
health effects
Uses
-Occupational
-Environmental
Epidemiologic triangle
-Agent
-Host
-Environment
Geographic Information Systems
, Coding data
-Relates it to a place on Earth (“mapping”)
GIS community-based maps
-Educate communities and local policy makers
-Provide graphic depictions of public health (PH) problems
-show community members where certain issues are
-ex: infant mortality and other acute and chronic illnesses to
show how it affects communities
Multidisciplinary Approaches
Earth sciences help to explain how pollutants travel in air, water,
and soil.
-Geologists
-Meteorologists
-Physicist
-Chemists
Key public health professionals:
-Food safety specialists
-Sanitarians
-Radiation specialists
-Industrial hygienists
Nurse's Role in EH
