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Environmental Health/Lead Exam With 100% Correct And Verified Answers 2024
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Environmental Health/Lead Exam With100% Correct And Verified Answers 2024
freedom from illness or injury r/t exposure to
toxic agents and other environmental
conditions that are potentially detrimental to
health. Aspects of human disease and injury
that are determined or influenced by factors
in the environment - Correct Answer-
Environmental Health
What are nurses becoming more active in
regarding enviro health? - Correct Answer-
reducing medical waste (recycling disposable
pulse ox) and increasing awareness of the
effect of the enviro on humans.
wrote a book about the adverse effects of
pesticides on the environment and how public
official accepting industry claims of
disinformation without Q - Correct Answer-
Rachel Carson (Silent Spring)
river that is famous for catching fire because
it was so polluted - Correct Answer-Cuyahoga
River, Ohio
a 70 acre landfil that was sold and a
neighborhood was built on top of it and it
cause birth defects and miscarriages because
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, people were not told about it -- required
extensive superfund clean up operation -
Correct Answer-Love Canal, NY
legislation created national program to
control damaging effects of air pollution -
Correct Answer-Clean Air Act
legislation that focused on improving nations
water - Correct Answer-Clean Water Act
US Fed govt program designed to fund the
clean up of sites contaminated with
hazardous wastes and pollutants (brown
fields) - Correct Answer-Superfund Act
when an activity raises threat to harm human
health or enviro, precautionary measures
should be taken even if there isn't an
established cause and effect relationship -
Correct Answer-Wingspread Statement Act
the "Where" external factors that affect the
host and can allow or cause disease
transmission
Ex. human blood, dirty water, warm
temperatures, seasonal factors - Correct
Answer-Environmental factors
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