Environmental Health
This colorless, odorless gas produced by combustion can cause headache, dizziness, confusion, and death. This is a primary pollutant.
What is carbon monoxide?
This phase in the disaster management cycle focuses on reducing harm before a disaster occurs.
What is mitigation?
This term describes unequal exposure of communities of color to environmental hazards.
What is environmental racism?
_____ was developed in 2010. It increased insurance coverage, improved preventative care, reduced discrimination, and expanded Medicaid.
What is Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
These workers are at increased risk for pesticide exposure and heat-related illness.
Who are agricultural workers?
This substance found in homes built before 1978 is a neurotoxin especially harmful to children.
What is lead?
Victims with life-threatening injuries requiring immediate intervention receive this triage color.
What is a red tag?
This principle says action should be taken to protect health even when complete scientific proof is unavailable.
What is the precautionary principle?
Federal insurance program primarily for: Adults age 65+, ESRD patients, and Certain disabled individuals
What is Medicare?
Give 3 examples of Category A Biological Agents
Anthrax, smallpox, Botulism, Plague, Tularemia
This invisible radioactive gas is the leading cause of lung cancer in nonsmokers.
What is radon?
This federal agency coordinates disaster response and provides financial and housing assistance after major emergencies.
What is FEMA?
This Michigan city experienced a major water crisis involving lead contamination beginning in 2014.
What is Flint?
This volunteer organization provides shelter, food, emergency supplies, and mental health support during disasters.
What is the American Red Cross?
These chemicals become vapors at room temperature and are found in paint, carpeting, and cleaning products.
What are volatile organic compounds (VOCs)?
Mold, Fungi, Animal dander, and insect parts are all what type of pollutant?
What are Biogenic pollutants?
This disaster phase focuses on rebuilding homes, restoring utilities, and providing long-term support.
What is the recovery phase?
This mapping system helps identify disease clusters, pollution patterns, and environmental justice concerns.
What is GIS (Geographic Information Systems)?
What type if insurance Uses a network of providers, Requires a primary care provider (PCP), PCP acts as “gatekeeper" and Specialist referrals required.
What is Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)?
Industrial smog is often gray and forms from what chemical?
What is sulfur dioxide?
You are a school nurse that works in a building build in 1970. After a week with constant rain, you notice that you have had an increase in students coming to the office with headaches, fatigue and allergy symptoms. You suspect _____, caused by ________.
Sick building syndrome, causes by mold/dampness.
According to disaster nursing ethics, the goal of triage is to do this.
What is “the greatest good for the greatest number”?
Two or more similar illnesses linked to a common ______ suggests an outbreak.
What is Food?
The total monetary value of all finished goods and services produced within a country during a specific period.
What is Gross Domestic Products (GDP)?
________ was commonly used in older homes for fireproofing. It is most dangerous when disturbed, because fibers become airborne.
What is Asbestos?