6100 final exam questions and correct answers.
1. Environmental Factors: The accumulation of physical, chemical, biological, so-
cial, cultural, economic, psychosocial and politicalconditions that influence the lives of communitie s.
An estimated 24% of the global burden of disease and 23% of all deaths can be attributed to environ
mental factors
2. Environmental Exposures:Herbicides
Pesticides
Otherchemicalcarcinogens Lead
Radiation
3. What Is Environmental Health?: Freedom from illness or injury related to ex-
posure to toxic agents and other environmental conditions that are potentially detrimental to hu
man health.
-if you have environmental health
Those aspects of human health, disease, and injury that are determined or influ-
enced by factors in the environment.
-physical and social environment
4. Healthy.People 2025 Objectivesfor.Environmental Health: Eliminateelevated lead blood lev
els in children.
Minimize risks posed by hazardous sites.
Reduce significant.pesticide exposures.
Reduce the amou nt of toxic pollutants.
Reduce indoor.allergen levels.
Decrease lead-based paint or related hazards.
5. Environmental Health Sciences:Toxicology
Epide miology
,Geographic.information systems
Multidisciplinary approaches
6. Toxicology:basic science that studies health effects associated withchemical exposures bo
th quanity and time of exposure
Sometimes called the study of poisons
Negative ef fects of chemicals
Pollutants have multiple routes into the body Epigen
etics: hazardous changes to DNA.Individuals have u
nique responses Chemical "families"
most.can cross blood brain barrier and placenta barrier
7. Epidemiology: Studies the strength of association between exposures and health effect
s
Uses
-Occupational
-Environmental
Epidemiologic triangle
-Agent
-Host
-Environment
8. 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
9. Multidisciplinary Approaches: Earth sciences help to explain how pollutants travel in air, w
ater, and soil.
-Geologists
-Meteorologists
-Physicist
-Chemists
Key public.health professionals:
-Food safetyspecialists
-Sanitarians
-Radiation specialists
-Industrial hygienists
10. Nurse's Role in EH: Largest group of health care providers in the
U.S. Generally have more opportunities to talk in-depth with patients
"On-
site": visiting homes, workplaces
Often a visible, trusted member of community
Must.be aware of environmental threats or factors thatmight.detrimentallyaffect.the safety and well-
being of populations
11. ex: issues with dumping old fuel containers: fuel is seeping into the ground so getting into
crops and livestock and can get into ground water
if someone is smoking this can ignite very quickly
12. ex: top of.a well picture: tons of rain causing an increase in flooding
the top of the well is covered by rain water.and not sealed tightly so this rain water is now inside this
well
13. WellWater.Testing:lead is a one time test.because if you get a p you have to g ositive then
et rid of the well because the well was made with lead
14. Rabies:Inspect.atticspace, rafters,porches,andwallsfor.signsofroostingbats Look for openi
ngs through which bats could enter.
, 30,000-40,000 people in the US require PEP every year due to potential exposure
about 30 deaths per year
15. Childhood Lead Poisoning:From 1996-
2014, approx.200,000 children under age 6 in WI were diagnosed with lead poisoning
Kids 0-
5 at highest risk.for lead poisoning are also enrolled in Medicaid or WIC Lead level should be less t
han 5mcg/dl
old houses (before 1978)
-every crack.in wall, the lead dust.is released in the air
-happens through remodeling
-door jams and window friction can release lead dust
16. Carbon Monoxide Poisoning: Odorless, colorless gas produced by incomplete combustion o f
organic fuels.
Carbon Monoxide binds to hemoglobin to form carboxyhemoglobin.This is unable to transport.oxy
gen, leading to hypoxia.
Labs:Needblood test.forcarboxyhemoglobin.Pulse oximetry is not.useful:oxy and carboxyhemoglo
bin absorbed at.same wavelength.
looks opposite so will be flushed, even the organs are a bright.cherry red
17. Carbon Monoxide Poisoning- acutesymtpoms:vague
flu- like symptoms drowsiness, headache, nausea or
dizziness
18. Carbon Monoxide Poisoning-.chronicsymptoms:headache, fatigue, dizzi-
ness, nausea, mental confusion (chronic.exposure may be more common than expected)
19. CarbonMonoxide Poisoningexposure.history: symptomschangeindifferent environments
? others ill? potential sources of CO?
20. Carbon Monoxide Poisoning detector/alarm: near bedrooms
21. Asthma: Definition/Characteristics: Chronic.inflammatory disorder
Intermittent and recurrent.episodes of...
-Wheezing, Shortness of breath, Chest.tightness, Cough -.night, early morning Airways -
swollen, inflamed, narrowed
1. Environmental Factors: The accumulation of physical, chemical, biological, so-
cial, cultural, economic, psychosocial and politicalconditions that influence the lives of communitie s.
An estimated 24% of the global burden of disease and 23% of all deaths can be attributed to environ
mental factors
2. Environmental Exposures:Herbicides
Pesticides
Otherchemicalcarcinogens Lead
Radiation
3. What Is Environmental Health?: Freedom from illness or injury related to ex-
posure to toxic agents and other environmental conditions that are potentially detrimental to hu
man health.
-if you have environmental health
Those aspects of human health, disease, and injury that are determined or influ-
enced by factors in the environment.
-physical and social environment
4. Healthy.People 2025 Objectivesfor.Environmental Health: Eliminateelevated lead blood lev
els in children.
Minimize risks posed by hazardous sites.
Reduce significant.pesticide exposures.
Reduce the amou nt of toxic pollutants.
Reduce indoor.allergen levels.
Decrease lead-based paint or related hazards.
5. Environmental Health Sciences:Toxicology
Epide miology
,Geographic.information systems
Multidisciplinary approaches
6. Toxicology:basic science that studies health effects associated withchemical exposures bo
th quanity and time of exposure
Sometimes called the study of poisons
Negative ef fects of chemicals
Pollutants have multiple routes into the body Epigen
etics: hazardous changes to DNA.Individuals have u
nique responses Chemical "families"
most.can cross blood brain barrier and placenta barrier
7. Epidemiology: Studies the strength of association between exposures and health effect
s
Uses
-Occupational
-Environmental
Epidemiologic triangle
-Agent
-Host
-Environment
8. 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
9. Multidisciplinary Approaches: Earth sciences help to explain how pollutants travel in air, w
ater, and soil.
-Geologists
-Meteorologists
-Physicist
-Chemists
Key public.health professionals:
-Food safetyspecialists
-Sanitarians
-Radiation specialists
-Industrial hygienists
10. Nurse's Role in EH: Largest group of health care providers in the
U.S. Generally have more opportunities to talk in-depth with patients
"On-
site": visiting homes, workplaces
Often a visible, trusted member of community
Must.be aware of environmental threats or factors thatmight.detrimentallyaffect.the safety and well-
being of populations
11. ex: issues with dumping old fuel containers: fuel is seeping into the ground so getting into
crops and livestock and can get into ground water
if someone is smoking this can ignite very quickly
12. ex: top of.a well picture: tons of rain causing an increase in flooding
the top of the well is covered by rain water.and not sealed tightly so this rain water is now inside this
well
13. WellWater.Testing:lead is a one time test.because if you get a p you have to g ositive then
et rid of the well because the well was made with lead
14. Rabies:Inspect.atticspace, rafters,porches,andwallsfor.signsofroostingbats Look for openi
ngs through which bats could enter.
, 30,000-40,000 people in the US require PEP every year due to potential exposure
about 30 deaths per year
15. Childhood Lead Poisoning:From 1996-
2014, approx.200,000 children under age 6 in WI were diagnosed with lead poisoning
Kids 0-
5 at highest risk.for lead poisoning are also enrolled in Medicaid or WIC Lead level should be less t
han 5mcg/dl
old houses (before 1978)
-every crack.in wall, the lead dust.is released in the air
-happens through remodeling
-door jams and window friction can release lead dust
16. Carbon Monoxide Poisoning: Odorless, colorless gas produced by incomplete combustion o f
organic fuels.
Carbon Monoxide binds to hemoglobin to form carboxyhemoglobin.This is unable to transport.oxy
gen, leading to hypoxia.
Labs:Needblood test.forcarboxyhemoglobin.Pulse oximetry is not.useful:oxy and carboxyhemoglo
bin absorbed at.same wavelength.
looks opposite so will be flushed, even the organs are a bright.cherry red
17. Carbon Monoxide Poisoning- acutesymtpoms:vague
flu- like symptoms drowsiness, headache, nausea or
dizziness
18. Carbon Monoxide Poisoning-.chronicsymptoms:headache, fatigue, dizzi-
ness, nausea, mental confusion (chronic.exposure may be more common than expected)
19. CarbonMonoxide Poisoningexposure.history: symptomschangeindifferent environments
? others ill? potential sources of CO?
20. Carbon Monoxide Poisoning detector/alarm: near bedrooms
21. Asthma: Definition/Characteristics: Chronic.inflammatory disorder
Intermittent and recurrent.episodes of...
-Wheezing, Shortness of breath, Chest.tightness, Cough -.night, early morning Airways -
swollen, inflamed, narrowed
