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week 10 - Coggle Diagram
week 10
Our environment includes: altered, unaltered, and built
Important considerations when weighing risk from or to the environment include route and time of exposure, stage of life, other diseases, and special sensitivities
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Public health assessment: beyond risk assessment because it includes data on actual exposure in a community
Ecological risk assessment : consider impact on plants, animals, and ecosystems
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Impact of built environment may include crowded conditions, noise, water contamination, waste management, more air pollution, less exercise and culture
"Without proactive actions to prepare for and manage climate change, the burdens of ill health are projected to increase during the coming decades..."
Greatest harm will be in populations with high exposure and susceptibility and those that produced the least GHG
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Distributed unequally to low income countries as well as groups including older people, people with chronic illness, mobility challenges, poor and isolated people, POC, certain occupational groups, and women.
'The number of people suffering from hunger worldwide increased from 797 mil in 2016 to more than 821 mil in 2018"
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Health impacts may include: injuries/deaths from extreme events, infectious diseases, food/water insecurity, drought/wildfire associated injuries, those associated with conflict over resources
Climate change is projected to have great impact on food sustainability, agriculture, sociodemographic and economic systems, and more
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Our impact on the environment is hard to measure, but WHO measures air pollution as our biggest impact