General Terms
Is Laney's class the best?
What is DUH!
The group that defines EJ as: “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, regulations and policies”
What is the EPA
This mining town in Sonora, Mexico is where the 2014 copper sulfate spill began.
What is Cananea?
People who live near toxic waste sites often experience more health problems because they are exposed to harmful pollution in their environment (True or False)
What is True
The definition of a Paradigm
What is a Paradigm is a framework for understanding problems and solutions
Rural black communities were affected by what according to the reading from Beard et al,. 2024?
What is Agricultural Pollution
This copper mine owned by Grupo Mexico was responsible for the toxic spill.
What is the Buena Vista del Cobre mine?
This group of people is most often disproportionately exposed to environmental hazards in the United States?
What is low income minority communities
The Dominant Epidemiological Paradigm is also known as
What is the Biomedical Paradigm
Why is community-based participatory research important?
What is allows for community engagement in study design and data collection, allowing the involvement of the communities with the greatest potential to be affected by the research
This river was the first to be contaminated when the spill entered the water system.
What is the Rio Bacanuchi?
Environmental exposures contribute to what illnesses? (only need to list 1)
What is Asthma, respiratory illness, kidney disease, developmental issues, mental health issues
The alternative paradigm is
What is The Environmental Risk Paradigm
Smith and Ouahiba note that this group was studied 3.2 times more than the next closest exposure group
What is Age?
The contamination spread through this larger river system for about 270 kilometers.
What is the Rio Sonora?
What are Social Determinants of health?
What is Housing, employment, and education, Access to healthcare, Racism, class, and gender and Environmental exposures
Contested illness a critical issue in EJ because
What is it creates a "double burden" for affected communities
The acronym for the group that hosted a virtual workshop to address environmental health disparities and develop strategies to reduce environmental injustice, focusing on community speakers
What is NIEHS
Approximately this many cubic meters of copper sulfate acid spilled into the river system in 2014.
What is 40,000 cubic meters
This concept in environmental health refers to the combined effect of multiple environmental exposures such as pollution, toxic chemicals, and poor living conditions along with social stressors like poverty, which together worsen health outcomes in vulnerable communities.
What is Cumulative Impacts