Environmental Health From Global to Local, 3e Howa
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Environmental Health From Global To Local, 3e Howa
Environmental Health From Global to Local 3rd Edition By Howard Frumkin (Test Bank)
Environmental Health From Global to Local 3e Howard Frumkin (Test Bank)
Environmental Health From Global to Local, 3e Howa
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Test Bank for Environmental Health From Global to Local, 3e Howard Frumkin (All Chapters Answers at the end of each Chapter ) Chapter 1 test questions 1. In ancient times, our ancestors confronted which of the following environmental health challenges: a. Food sanitation b. Water sanitation c. Human waste management d. Solid waste management e. All of the above 2. With the development of industrialization and urbanization in the 17th through 19th centuries, which of the following most contributed to heightened public health threats? a. Urban mass transit b. Crowding and substandard housing in cities c. Mass production of industrial p roducts d. The development toxic pesticides e. Bubonic plague 3. In the first half of the 20th century in the U.S., infant mortality and total mortality fell dramatically, and life expectancy rose. Which intervention accounted for the largest part of these gain s? a. Antibiotics b. Improved literacy c. The defeat of Jim Crow laws d. Improved surgical techniques e. Improved potable water supplies 4. John Snow, a seminal figure in the history of public health, made his mark by: a. Conducting the first analysis of vital statistics in England b. Identifying workplace hazards in a rapidly industrializing England c. Identifying contaminated water as the cause of a cholera outbreak in London d. Proposing postulates, or requirements, that establish a causal connection between a microorganism and human disease e. Campaigning against unsafe housing in the tenements of London 5. Which of the following environmental health disasters does NOT correctly identify the toxic exposure? a. Minamata Bay, Japan - mercury b. Bhopal, India – isocyanates c. Woburn, Massachusetts – organic chemicals in drinking water d. Donora, Pennsylvania – severe air pollution e. Love Canal, New York – contaminate fish from the Great Lakes 6. Which of the following represents a unique, defining feature of environmental justice? a. A focus on land conservation b. A focus on environmental exposures of vulnerable populations such as racial minorities c. A focus on the enforcement of environmental laws d. A focus on ecosystem functioning e. A focus on public -private partnerships to improve environm ental health 7. Which of the following statements is NOT an accurate reflection of upstream thinking in environmental health? a. Water treatment plants are generally placed upstream from sources of drinking water. b. The root causes of disease may operate at a l ocation f ar from the affected population. c. The root causes of disease may operate long before the disease appears. d. The root causes of disease may operate outside the health sector, say, in the energy or food sectors. e. Complex systems thinking is often necess ary to understand fully the risks a population faces. Key: 1. E 2. B 3. E 4. C 5. E 6. B 7. A Frumkin 3rd Ed. - Test Bank Items Chapter 2 1 Chapter 2 Ecology and Ecosystems as Foundational for Health Test Bank Questions 1. The word ecology comes from the Greek word oikos meaning a. Planet Earth b. The interconnected web of life c. Home, place to live d. The study of living organisms 2. Hierarchy and scale are important constructs in ecology. Which of the following phrases correctly describes the relationship between a particular level of scale and a relate d discipline and its focal area? a. Cells, anatomy, behavior b. Communities, community ecology, evolut ion c. Tissues/organs, morphology, infection d. None of the above 3. Understanding food webs is important for environmental health in particular because a. Humans can be consumed by predators at the top of the food chain b. Decomposers can be sources of infectious dise ase in human populations c. Persistent pollutants can bioaccumulate or biomagnify up the food web d. Humans need food to survive 4. Examples of factors that limit population growth include all except a. Competition for resources b. Predation c. Activities of decomposing microorganisms d. Activities of parasitic organisms 5. The field of Conservation Biology seeks to prevent species extinction, which becomes irreversible when a. The death rate for all populations of that species exceeds the birth rate b. The birth rate for all populations of that species exceeds the death rate c. The birth rate and death rate for all populations of that species are approximately equal 6. Air and water quality, climate, erosion, disease transmission, pest proliferation, and pollination are all examples of which category of ecosystem services, defined by the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment
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