Areas of EH
Effects & Efforts of EH
Emerging Illnesses
Critical CHNP
Critical Theory
100
What is the discriminatory use ensuring that many impoverished and marginalized groups, especially of color, live in close proximity to industrial contamination?
What is Environmental Racism
100
What is an example of a GENERAL effect of environmental hazards?
What is The ramifications of high unemployment, drought, & extensive smog cover
100
Refers to newly identified diseases, as well as diseases in parts of the world where they were previously nonexistent.
What is Emerging Illnesses
100
A collective strategy that is an effective aggregate-level community health nursing intervention is:
What is Participatory action research
100
Name 2 of the 3 things the ecological approach of the 1960’s and 1970’s primarily focused on.
What is Clean Water, Clean Air, Protected natural resources in specific locale.
200
What is the amount of protection in the atmospheric layers, the risks of severe weather, and the purity of the air?
What is Atmospheric Quality
200
Is black lung an immediate, long term, or trans-generational environmental health effect?
What is Long Term
200
These areas are more susceptible to emerging illnesses because they are densely populated and permit rapid entrance of microbes and contaminants from other countries due to the large number of seaports and airports.
What is Urban Areas
200
Using , community health nurses can help community members look beyond immediate environmental problems and explore social, cultural, economic, and political circumstances that contribute to them.
What is Critical Questions
200
_____ is an approach that raises questions about oppressive situations, involves community members in the definition and solution, and facilitates interventions that reduce the health-damaging effects of environments.
What is : Critical Theory
300
What is an environmental health concern that refers to the availability, safety, cleanliness and location of shelter, including public facilities and individual or family dwellings?
What is Housing
300
What is an example of a negative environmental health effect that can be reversible?
What is Smokers who have quit demonstrate cilia in the lungs regenerating after months-years
300
This mnemonic is a quick reference tool created for primary care providers regarding environmental exposure.
What is The "I PREPARE" mnemonic
300
Initiating dialogue and building a strong base of collective support, nurses join with communities to eliminate hazards and improve public health. This is an example of what intervention?
What is Forming Coalitions
300
Please describe the Precautionary Principle.
What is The statement describes that “when an activity raises the threats of harm to human health or the environment, precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically”
400
What is the availability and relative cost of food, variety and safety of food, and the health of animal and plant food sources?
What is Food Quality
400
The United States Environmental Protection Agency have massive responsibilities when it comes to protecting the environment and minimizing risks to human health; What are two responsibilities of the EPA?
Health surveillance & monitoring Setting standards for air & water quality Evaluating environmental risks Acquiring information Screening new chemicals Performing basic research and training Establishing, evaluating, and enforcing regulatory effortsWhat is
400
The Healthy People 2020 initiative is to attempt to approach health at this level as opposed to the individual level.
What is Aggregate level
400
What is the goal of Health Care Without Harm campaign?
What is The goal of the campaign is to reduce the environmental health risks that were being created by the health care industry.
400
______ is the accumulation of physical, social, cultural, economic, and political conditions that influence the lives of communities.
What is Environment
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