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Environmental Health and Safety - Coggle Diagram
Environmental Health and Safety
"environment"
unaltered "natural" environment: daily exposures to communicable diseases in water and food have always been a part of the unaltered environment
built environment: new and includes all the impacts of the physical environment as a result of human construction, the impacts include injuries and exposures in the hime, the transportation system, where we work and play, the built environment influences our safety through its impact on injuries and hazardous exposures
altered environment: reflecting the impact of chemicals, radiation, and biological products that we introduce into the environment that we often call pollution
Interactions between human beings and the physical environment
Public health assessment: goes beyond risk assessment by including data on actual exposure in a community
Ecological assessment:not viewed solely on the basis of current impacts on human health
inhalation, ingestion, water, in utero are all ways how leads enters our bodies for example
Risk assessment: formal process that aims to measure the potential impact of one known hazard
hazard identification, dose-response relationship, exposure assessment, risk characterization
Interaction analysis:implies that to understand and control the impacts of environmental exposures, it is necessary to take into account the effect of two or more exposures
multiplicative interaction: examines the multiplicative interaction between radon and cigarette smoking is what this does for example
"unintentional" vs " intentional"
intentional injuries: brought about on purpose whether the injury is self-inflicted or meant for others
unintentional injury: injuries sustained in a motor vehicle collision, drownings, falls, fires, poisonings, and other incidents
Culture of health action framework
creating healthier more equitable communities
strengthening integration of health services and systems
fostering cross-sector collaboration to improve well-being
outcome: improved population health, well-being, and equity
making health a shared value
All-hazards approach to protection
uses the same approach to prepare for many types of disasters, including the use of surveillance systems, communications systems, evacuation, and organized healthcare response. it recognizes the need for basic public health infrastructure to respond not only to dramatic emergency but to everyday needs