Ecological Determinants of Health
This international agreement helped reduce ozone-depleting chemicals.
What is the Montreal Protocol?
This Canadian demographic is disproportionately affected by unsafe drinking water.
Who are Indigenous communities?
This phenomenon, caused by rising greenhouse gases, leads to extreme weather events.
What is climate change?
Nurses encourage families to use less of this single-use material to protect the environment.
What is plastic?
This term describes the knowledge and practices passed down through generations in Indigenous communities.
What is Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Wisdom (TEKW)?
This is a crucial ecological determinant that provides oxygen and supports marine life.
What is the ocean?
Vulnerability to environmental health inequities increases with this factor related to age.
What is developmental stage?
Microplastics have been found in these two essential sources of human nutrition.
What are seafood and drinking water?
Nurses focus on this kind of prevention to stop harm before it even begins.
What is primary prevention?
TEKW emphasizes this kind of relationship with the environment.
What is respect and stewardship?
This layer of the Earth's atmosphere protects us from harmful ultraviolet rays.
What is the ozone layer?
These pollutants, found in traditional food sources, have been linked to birth defects and cancer in Indigenous communities.
What are persistent organic pollutants (POPs)?
This term describes the rapid human-driven alterations to Earth's ecosystems.
What is anthropogenic change?
Nurses can partner with communities to evaluate the environmental impact of this urban development plan.
What is a new subdivision?
Indigenous communities in this Canadian region are particularly affected by melting permafrost.
What is the Arctic?
Clean air, water, and this element are essential for growing food.
What is soil?
This term describes the unequal exposure of marginalized groups to pollution and its consequences.
What is environmental injustice?
This region of the world has seen the greatest impacts of industrial pollution.
What is Southeast Asia?
Name one co-benefit of transitioning to cleaner energy sources.
What is improved air quality?
This concept by Mi’kmaq Elder Albert Marshall integrates Western science and Indigenous knowledge.
What is Two-Eyed Seeing?
Name one resource used for energy that significantly contributes to climate change when burned.
What are fossil fuels?
This group, often in caregiving roles, is disproportionately affected by indoor air pollution.
Who are women?
Rising sea levels are primarily caused by the melting of this type of ice.
What is permafrost?
Nurses involved in this level of prevention advocate against over-medicalization to reduce pharmaceutical pollution.
What is quaternary prevention?
Inuit communities rely on this skill, which has been disrupted by climate change, to predict safe hunting conditions.
What is weather observation?