Emergency Prep
& Response
& Response
What is an Emergency?
These are the three branches of federal government, providing a system of checks and balances. This system is essentially duplicated at the state level, as well.
What are the Legislative, Executive and Judicial branches?
This process for the generation, transport and replenishing of the earth's water, contains five 'transfer mechanisms.'
What is the Hydrologic Cycle?
This type of food hazard, among the three general categories discussed in class, is the leading cause of foodborne illness.
What is Biological?
These include transportation, electric power and industrial activities.
What are Manmade Sources of air pollution?
This is the population's capacity to withstand adversity and to recover quickly from an emergency or disaster event.
What is Resilience?
The creation of this law-related item, which provides primary authority for regulatory agencies and is typically prompted by crisis or need, involves the writing and sponsorship of a bill, followed by a vote of the legislative branch of government.
What is a Statute?
It typically includes a tank, a distribution box and a disposal field, otherwise known as a leach field, and is depended upon by an estimated 25% to 30% of residents.
What is a Septic System?
This bacterium is the leading cause of foodborne illnesses and deaths each year in the United States.
What is Salmonella?
It is an atmospheric phenomenon that causes a cold dome of air to suppress pollutants in our airspace, potentially creating unhealthy conditions, especially for those with preexisting respiratory or cardiovascular conditions.
What is a Temperature Inversion?
According to the WHO, this may refer to any occurrence that causes damage, environmental disruption, loss of life or deterioration of health and health services on a scale that warrants an extraordinary response.
What is a Disaster?
It is a statutory limitation on the power of law, granting the defendant certain rights whenever a liberty or property interest is detained.
What is Due Process?
By definition, it is water contamination that comes from many diffuse sources.
What is Non-Point Source Pollution?
Pesticides may be sprayed in food establishments by these individuals.
What is a Licensed Pesticide Applicator?
These specific regulations are not focused on the health effects of air pollution, per se, but consider issues like air pollution's effect on matters like the economy, agriculture and property.
What are Secondary Standards?
This form of preparation for public health emergencies takes into account that such emergencies are unpredictable, so one must always have available a continuous and minimal level of resources and personnel with sufficient training.
What is an All Hazards Approach?
This term represents one of the five characteristics making public health law unique and may involve public health's power to forcibly demand conformance by compelling individuals to comply for protection of the community.
What is Coercion?
It is a waterborne protozoan that causes chronic diarrhea, is sometimes spread person to person and was responsible for an estimated 400,000 illnesses during a 1993 water contamination event in Michigan.
What is Cryptosporidiosis?
A range of temperatures, from 41 degrees Fahrenheit to 135 degrees Fahrenheit, that is to be minimized to prevent potential foodborne illness.
What is the Danger Zone?
This is a part of the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990, which provided for much more stringent controls over six particularly harmful pollutants, including SO2, NOx, CO, particulate matter, lead and ozone.
What are the National Ambient Air Quality Standards? (Criteria Pollutants acceptable)
These include preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery.
What are the Phases of Emergency Management?
This important, precedent-setting decision in court determined that the judge is the sole gatekeeper for expert testimony, with specific criteria necessary for expert opinion in court.
What is the Daubert Decision?
This is the addition of a substance like aluminum bisulfate to raw sewage, which is designed to bind small suspended particles so they may settle and be removed.
What is Flocculation?
A name for bacteria that may grow with or without oxygen.
What is a Facultative Bacterium?
What is Particulate Matter?