Environmental Health
The four basic needs of survival
What is food, water, shelter, and air?
This is a community of people that need the protection of policy because of their skin color.
What is People of Color?
This is the idea of taking a small idea and speaking about something greater.
What are Systems Thinking?
This field promotes and protects the health of people and the communities where they live, learn, work and play.
What is public health?
Everything that affects the life, development, and survival of living things.
What is the Environment?
This is a community of people that need the protection of policies due to their abilities.
What are people with disabilities?
This is the second step in the iceberg model and usually reflects on what's been happening, the trends, and the changes that have occurred.
What are Patterns of Behavior?
A state of complete physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing rather than a mere absence of disease or infirmity.
What is health?
A branch of public health that is concerned with monitoring or minimizing the factors in the environment that affect human health and disease.
What is Environmental Health?
This term refers to decisions, plans, and actions that were undertaken to achieve specific health care goals within a society.
What is health policy?
This is the tip of the iceberg model and asks the question "what happened?" Usually, this is what we see before we see the root of an issue.
What is Events?
Name the athlete we discussed who placed first in the Olympic trials and was scheduled to compete in the Tokyo Olympics.
Who is Sha'Carri Richardson?
The fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws.
What is Environmental Justice?
These are two communities that need the protection of policy due to their age?
What are children and the elderly?
What are Mental Models?
These are the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.
What are social determinants of health?
We are exposed to _________ ________ in our homes and in our environments because of things like air pollution, chemicals, and radiation that can impact our health.
What are risk factors?
This was a large social movement in Spring 2020 that pushed for reform of the police due to mistreatment of black people and led to riots all around the country. As a result, several national and international organizations declared racism a public health crisis.
What is Black Lives Matter?
This part of the iceberg model asks what has influenced the patterns and what are the relationships among the parts.
What are Structures of the System?
Recognizes that each person has different circumstances and allocates the exact resources and opportunities needed to reach an equal outcome.
What is equity?