WITH VERIFIRED ANSWERS PAPER 4-YEAR 2024-
2025
The environment plays a role in human health through associations with which of
the following?
Acute conditions, Allergic responses, Disability, Chronic disease
Compared with adults, children represent a group that is especially vulnerable to
environmental hazards for the following reasons, except:
They spend more time indoors
Environmental risk transition is most likely to be characterized by:
control of household risks and creation of a new set of problems.
In 2050, the world's three most populous countries will be:
India, China, United States
What problem(s) may be encountered in the policy establishment stage?
Inability to coordinate and assess research information
,Which of the following describes the principle of environmental sustainability?
A strong, just, and wealthy society can be consistent with a clean environment
Which of the following describes the polluter-pays principle?
A polluter should bear the expense of carrying out pollution prevention and
control measures.
With respect to the policy cycle, what problem(s) may be encountered in the
assessment/evaluation stage?
Lack of sound scientific data
Which of the following aspects is not included in the built environment?
Undeveloped land
With respect to the policy cycle, what problem(s) may be encountered in the
agenda setting stage?
Lack of information on risk; lack of coordination
, With respect to the policy cycle, what problem(s) may be encountered in the
problem definition stage?
Poorly defined problems
Which of the following historical figures was among the first to expound on the
role of environmental factors in causing diseases?
Hippocrates
The Texas Sharpshooter Effect illustrates:
one cause of spurious or chance clustering.
Prevalence measures aid in:
assessing variations in disease occurrence, the development of hypotheses, and
describing the scope of health problems.
Environmental health science is concerned with agent, host, and environmental
factors in disease (the epidemiologic triangle). Which statement is true about the
triangle?
Agent factors can include particles, toxic chemicals, and pesticides, the
environment is the domain in which disease-causing agents may exist, the host
is the person who affords lodgment of an infectious agent, Disease causality
includes three major factors: agent, host, and environment.