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What is Environmental Health
12.6 Million people are estimated to died result of working in unhealthy environment (23% of the death). Environmental change pose additional major challenge.
:!: Health " state of complete physical, mental, and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."
:!: National Centre of Environmental Health: Promote health and quality of life by preventing or controlling disease or death result from interaction between people and their envrionment.
:!: Environment: Air we breath, water we drink, food, chemical, radiation, microbes and physical force we contact
Environmental Health Hazard
Physical: Earthquakes
Cultural: Smoking and drug
:!:Chemical Substance : Deliberated created , produced as byproduct of other process or occurring naturally in the environment (element or compounds)
Canada: over 23,000 chemical in use, 37 - 2700 evalauted , and 151 known toxic by Canadian Environment Protection Act,
Biological : infectious diseases
Chemical : pesticides
:!: Toxic: substance know or suspect to have harmful effect on human life and wildlife the natural environment when they spread
Sources
Home: cleanser, vinyl shower current, clothing, pesticides
Diet: pesticide, fertilizers, antibiotics in meat, hormones in meat, contaminated fish
Impacts
:!: Allergenic: cause allergies
:!: Neurtoxin: damages or destroy nerve tissues
:!: Mutagen: induce mutation
:!: Teratogen: malformation of embryo or fetus
:!: Carcinogens : cancer causing
:!: Endocrine Hormone disrupters