PUBH 6011 CORRECT STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔extreme weather - ✔✔The arctic is warming faster than the mid-latitudes, which
leads to a temperature differential that drives the jet stream
the jet stream is slower than usual, and does not move weather systems out of the way
as quickly; this leads to extreme cold/weather
✔✔Current CO2 concentration: - ✔✔395,000 ppbv
✔✔Pre-industrial CO2 concentration: - ✔✔278,000 ppbv
✔✔Paris Agreement - ✔✔Agree to keep the planet from warming 2 degrees Celsius
CO2 concentration cap: 450 parts per million
Voluntary and not legally binding, unlike the Kyoto Protocol
✔✔Heat Exhaustion - ✔✔sweating, dizziness, nausea
✔✔Heat Stroke - ✔✔worse than heat exhaustion
core temperature increases, no sweating, nausea, rapid pulse
✔✔Malnutrition: - ✔✔deficiencies, excesses, or imbalances in a person's intake of
energy and/or nutrients
✔✔Hunger: - ✔✔the uneasy or painful sensation caused by lack of food and the
recurrent and involuntary lack of food
✔✔Food Security: - ✔✔access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life
includes the ready availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or the ability to
acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways
, ✔✔Food insecurity - ✔✔occupational energy expenditure, exists whenever the
availability of nutritionally adequate/safe foods or the ability to acquire acceptable foods
in socially acceptable ways is limited or uncertain
✔✔Food environment - ✔✔the physical presence of food that affects a person's diet
✔✔declining - ✔✔occupational energy expenditure is
✔✔Take Back Effect: - ✔✔when you have a more environmentally friendly intervention,
you don't necessarily get the full benefit
Ex. cars are getting cleaner, but people are driving more
✔✔emergency - ✔✔a disruption that does not exceed a community's or society's
capacity to cope.
✔✔disaster - ✔✔a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society
causing widespread human, material, economic, or environmental losses that exceed
the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources.
OVERWHELMS SYSTEM (types: Technological, Natural, and Hybrid)
✔✔prevention - ✔✔stopping the disaster beforehand
✔✔mitigation - ✔✔reducing loss of life or property from disaster
✔✔disaster response - ✔✔Warning time is critical
highest risk: climate related disasters
immediate response: you, family, neighbors, then maybe rescue, recovery ops
First responder is often a spouse, neighbor
Medical, food, water, shelter, safety
Prioritize poor, elderly, sick
✔✔disaster recovery - ✔✔can be months/years
damaged homes and utility infrastructure
many displaced people
expensive
✔✔solar disinfection (SODIS) to treat drinking water - ✔✔clear plastic bottles: put clean
water in them
put them in the sun for 6 hours, or 2 days on cloudy days
kills microbes
✔✔US National Flood Insurance Program issues - ✔✔Premiums were supposed to
cover payments, but premiums are too low for risk-- and getting worse
designed to insure people having trouble getting private flood insurance
AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔extreme weather - ✔✔The arctic is warming faster than the mid-latitudes, which
leads to a temperature differential that drives the jet stream
the jet stream is slower than usual, and does not move weather systems out of the way
as quickly; this leads to extreme cold/weather
✔✔Current CO2 concentration: - ✔✔395,000 ppbv
✔✔Pre-industrial CO2 concentration: - ✔✔278,000 ppbv
✔✔Paris Agreement - ✔✔Agree to keep the planet from warming 2 degrees Celsius
CO2 concentration cap: 450 parts per million
Voluntary and not legally binding, unlike the Kyoto Protocol
✔✔Heat Exhaustion - ✔✔sweating, dizziness, nausea
✔✔Heat Stroke - ✔✔worse than heat exhaustion
core temperature increases, no sweating, nausea, rapid pulse
✔✔Malnutrition: - ✔✔deficiencies, excesses, or imbalances in a person's intake of
energy and/or nutrients
✔✔Hunger: - ✔✔the uneasy or painful sensation caused by lack of food and the
recurrent and involuntary lack of food
✔✔Food Security: - ✔✔access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life
includes the ready availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or the ability to
acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways
, ✔✔Food insecurity - ✔✔occupational energy expenditure, exists whenever the
availability of nutritionally adequate/safe foods or the ability to acquire acceptable foods
in socially acceptable ways is limited or uncertain
✔✔Food environment - ✔✔the physical presence of food that affects a person's diet
✔✔declining - ✔✔occupational energy expenditure is
✔✔Take Back Effect: - ✔✔when you have a more environmentally friendly intervention,
you don't necessarily get the full benefit
Ex. cars are getting cleaner, but people are driving more
✔✔emergency - ✔✔a disruption that does not exceed a community's or society's
capacity to cope.
✔✔disaster - ✔✔a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society
causing widespread human, material, economic, or environmental losses that exceed
the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources.
OVERWHELMS SYSTEM (types: Technological, Natural, and Hybrid)
✔✔prevention - ✔✔stopping the disaster beforehand
✔✔mitigation - ✔✔reducing loss of life or property from disaster
✔✔disaster response - ✔✔Warning time is critical
highest risk: climate related disasters
immediate response: you, family, neighbors, then maybe rescue, recovery ops
First responder is often a spouse, neighbor
Medical, food, water, shelter, safety
Prioritize poor, elderly, sick
✔✔disaster recovery - ✔✔can be months/years
damaged homes and utility infrastructure
many displaced people
expensive
✔✔solar disinfection (SODIS) to treat drinking water - ✔✔clear plastic bottles: put clean
water in them
put them in the sun for 6 hours, or 2 days on cloudy days
kills microbes
✔✔US National Flood Insurance Program issues - ✔✔Premiums were supposed to
cover payments, but premiums are too low for risk-- and getting worse
designed to insure people having trouble getting private flood insurance
