Toxicology & Risk Assessment
This dose is the amount of a substance that is encountered in the enviornment.
Exposure dose
This type of analysis allows one to make a causal hypothesis about exposure and disease.
Analytic
What is the name of the bacterium that causes plague?
Yersinia pestis
What government agency is responsible for maintaining surveillance of foodborne illness at the federal level?
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
This term refers to the systematic characterization of potential adverse health effects resulting from human exposure.
Risk assessment
List the three components of the Epidemiology traingle
Agent
Host
Environment
(True False) In Kentucky, most zoonotic illnesses are caused by mosquitoes.
False
This type of water originates from precipitation on land, then runs into rivers, streams, and lakes and eventually reaches oceans, inland seas, or aquifers (unless it evaporates).
Runoff
This term refers to the temporary or permanent hearing loss due to sudden intense acoustic events.
Acoustic trauma
This is the process by which substances cross body membranes and enter the bloodstream.
Absorption
This term refers to the proportion of a population that develops a disease over a time period relative to the number of people at risk.
Cumulative Incidence
This term refers to the condition where many of the body's organs are affected, the overall cardiovascular system is damaged, and the body's ability to function is reduced.
Viral hemorrhagic fever
In Europe, what is the biggest use for water?
Industries
This surveillance network monitors trends and connects illnesses to specific foods and settings.
FoodNet
Name the three steps in exposure assessment.
2. Identify exposure pathways
3. Quantify the exposure
This term refers to people who can get the outcome of interest.
Sample population
List 3 factors for the rise in zoonotic disease.
Deforestation
Conversion of grasslands
Irrigation
Changes in human population
Name 3 criteria air pollutants
Ozone
Nitrogen dioxide
Carbon monoxide
Sulfur dioxide
Particulate matter
Lead
This notable person identified bad working conditions as a factor that weakened resistance to disease.
This curve measures as a percentage of exposed animals an effect to a substance.
Population dose-response curve
This calculation provides a measure of lethality.
Case Fatality Rate
This term refers to the time interval between when you are exposed to an infection agent and the appearance of the first signs or symptoms.
Incubation period
List 5 sources of anthropogenic sources of air pollution.
Electric generating plants
Factories and manufacturing
Oil refineries
Chemical plants
Incinerators
On & off road vehicles
Nonroad vehicles (airplanes, ships, trains)
Which act regulates noise?
Clean Air Act