Environmental Health--FINAL EXAM With 100% Solutions.

Burden of disease - correct answer total significance of disease for society beyond the immediate cost of treatment. Measured in yrs of life lost to ill health = total life expectancy- disability adjusted life expectancy Life expectancy - correct answer the expectation of the number of years of life at birth Disability-adjusted life expectancy - correct answer the number of years of healthy life expected in a particular population 3 P's as the principal determinants of health - correct answer Pollution Population Poverty carrying capacity - correct answer The population that an area would support without undergoing environmental deterioration. Tends to limit population size. Available resources are exhausted. environmental risk transition - correct answer Changes in environmental risks that happen as a consequence of economic development in the less developed regions of the world. Before the transition occurs, poor quality of: 1. Food 2. Air 3. Water Demographic transition - correct answer The alteration over time in a population's fertility, mortality and make-up. Does NOT include the effects of migration. Epidemiologic transition - correct answer Describes a shift in the pattern of morbidity