Public Health Quiz 2

Environmental Health

Environmental pollutants originating from human activity

Greater exposure should lead to greater incidence of the effect, presence of the factor can trigger the effect, or greater exposure leads to lower incidence

Proposal that may explain a cause and effect relationship

Maximum population size of a species that the environment can sustain indefinitely

Conformity in the application of something

Decline of the dangers of the home (poor sanitation) over the course of history, rise of the dangers of the community (urban pollution) and global dangers (greenhouse gas emissions)

System that regulates internal environment, maintains a stable, relitively constant condition of temp and pH

Resistant to environmental degredation, these compounds can be carried worldwide by air, water, and migratory species of animals

Quity or state of being specific

Magnitude or size of a relative risk

Introduction of a pathogen to a new host (diseases used in biological warfare)

Measure of overall disease burden, expressed as number of years lost to ill-health, disability or early death

Contaminated water supply, inadequate sanitation, poor nutrition, improper health care= malaria, intestinal parasites, tuberculosis, AIDS, dental decay

Variables used to stand in for one that is difficult to measure directly