ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH FROM
GLOBAL TO LOCAL FINAL PAPER FULL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
ALREADY PASSED
●● Percent of disease globally associated with environmental sources
Answer: 25-33%
●● factors affecting health
Answer: air quality, water quality, diet, personal hygiene, exercise,
sexual practices, drug use, and occupation
●● mortality
Answer: number of deaths in a defined population in a given period of
time
●● morbidity
Answer: number of people in a diseased state in a defined population
●● incidence
Answer: new cases in a population in a given period of time
, ●● prevalence
Answer: proportion of existing cases of a disease in a population at a
given point in time
●● surveillance
Answer: tracking and comparing disease rates in populations across
diseases, across places, or over time
●● threats to organisms
Answer: toxic or radioactive chemicals, physical stresses, and infectious
or parasitic agents
●● threats to the ecosystem
Answer: overpopulation, global warming, stratospheric ozone depletion,
acid aerosols deposition, and loss of biological diversity
●● Six tenets of Agenda 21
Answer: enhancement of the quality of life on earth, efficient use of the
Earth's natural resources, protection of our global commons,
management of human settlements, chemicals and the management of
waste, and sustainable economic growth
●● population control measures
GLOBAL TO LOCAL FINAL PAPER FULL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
ALREADY PASSED
●● Percent of disease globally associated with environmental sources
Answer: 25-33%
●● factors affecting health
Answer: air quality, water quality, diet, personal hygiene, exercise,
sexual practices, drug use, and occupation
●● mortality
Answer: number of deaths in a defined population in a given period of
time
●● morbidity
Answer: number of people in a diseased state in a defined population
●● incidence
Answer: new cases in a population in a given period of time
, ●● prevalence
Answer: proportion of existing cases of a disease in a population at a
given point in time
●● surveillance
Answer: tracking and comparing disease rates in populations across
diseases, across places, or over time
●● threats to organisms
Answer: toxic or radioactive chemicals, physical stresses, and infectious
or parasitic agents
●● threats to the ecosystem
Answer: overpopulation, global warming, stratospheric ozone depletion,
acid aerosols deposition, and loss of biological diversity
●● Six tenets of Agenda 21
Answer: enhancement of the quality of life on earth, efficient use of the
Earth's natural resources, protection of our global commons,
management of human settlements, chemicals and the management of
waste, and sustainable economic growth
●● population control measures
