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EHST 2110 Exam 1 Questions and
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environment - ANSWER - the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant
lives or operates. Covers both physical and work environments with upstream hazards
presenting risks to downstream communities


health - ANSWER - a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely
the absence of disease or infirmity


evironmental health - ANSWER - aspects of human health, including quality of life, that are
determined by physical, chemical, biological, social, and psychosocial processes in the
environment.


theory and practice of assessing, correcting, controlling, and preventing those factors in the
environment that can potentially adversely affect the health of present and future generations


William Penn - ANSWER - declared 1 acre land remain forested for every 5 acres cut


Henry David Thoreau - ANSWER - preservation of world though lands


John Wesley Powell - ANSWER - report on lands in the arid west


Percival Pott - ANSWER - Discovered associations between chimney sweeps and scrotal
cancer


Environmental Science - ANSWER - Integrates physical, biological and information sciences


Environmental Epidemiology - ANSWER - Concerned with determining how environmental
exposures impact human health


Surveillance, Risk assessment, Risk communication

, Bernardina Ramazzini - ANSWER - published first edition of "diseases of workers"


medicine - ANSWER - Study of effects upon human beings of external physical, chemical, and
biological factors in the general environment


George Perkins Marsh - ANSWER - Considered to be America's first environmentalist


Earth Day - ANSWER - April 22, 1970


Rachel Carson - ANSWER - United States biologist remembered for her opposition to the use of
pesticides that were hazardous to wildlife (1907-1964)


silent sprig


communicable disease center - ANSWER - Initial primary mission combatting malaria (1946)


EPA - ANSWER - an independent federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at
reducing pollution and protecting the environment


public health service act - ANSWER - Formerly Public Health and Marine Hospital Services
(PHMHS)


Human diseases (such as, tuberculosis, hookworm, malaria, and leprosy), sanitation, water
supplies and sewage disposal


4 subdivisions of environmental health - ANSWER - Environmental Science
Environmental and occupational medicine
Toxicology
Epidemiology

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