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Term | Definition |
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Environmental Health | theory and practice of assessing, correcting & preventing environmental factors that can have adverse health effects on current & future populations. |
Environmental Factors & Exposure (4) | Medium Type Setting Functional Location |
What are examples of medium? | Air Water Soil Food |
What are examples of types? | Chemical Biological Radiological Examples: herbicides, pesticides, smoke, exhaust, human/animal waste, lead, radiation (radon), antibiotics |
What are examples of setting? | Urban Rural Suburban |
What are examples of functional location? | Home School Workplace Community |
What are the Healthy 2020 Objectives for Environmental Health? | Eliminate elevated lead blood levels in children Minimize risks posed by hazardous sites Reduce significant pesticide exposures Reduce the amount of toxic pollutants Reduce indoor allergen levels Decrease lead-based paint or related hazards |
primary, secondary, tertiary prevention for lead poisoning | Primary: illness doesn't exist, educate/public service announcements, eliminate landlords. Secondary: screen the children for lead levels by drawing blood Tertiary: child is positive, refer child for lead poisoning |
Climate Change | climate change is an emerging threat to public health main factors are temperatures, CO2 levels and sea levels |
What are the nurse's primary role in climate change? | Mitigation: & Response: |
What is mitigation? | working at individual, community, governmental level to ensure energy-conserving policies and practices, using education where recycling has taken a big part. |
What is response? | Public health nurses must be prepared for increased fire/storm-related disasters: - threats to food production & security r/t weather. |