Definitions
A branch of public health concerned with studying environmental factors that affect human health
What is environmental health?
The federal government agency involved with the environmental justice movement
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
What is dermal absorption?
A person who studies the environment
What is an environmental scientist?
A branch of medicine concerning patients suffering from diseases or afflictions of environmental origin
What is environmental medicine?
This movement is what arose concerns that the environmental justice movement was later created to address
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
The smaller the dose, the milder this is
What is response?
A person who studies poisons
What is a toxicologist?
The study of poisons
This was the first time African Americans mobilized a national, broad-based group to oppose environmental injustices
What is the Memphis Sanitation Strike?
While exposure describes a hazard contacting your body, this term details how much of the hazard enters your body
What is dose?
What is a pollution analyst?
Racial discrimination in environmental policy-making and enforcement of regulation and laws
This is widely seen as the first event of the environmental justice movement
What is the sit-in against the Warren County, NC PCB landfill?
What are source, environmental pathway, and contact?
A person who studies the chemical processes specific to living things
the state or fact of being liable to be influenced or harmed by a particular thing
What is susceptibility?
This is the name of the landfill that homeowners tried to oppose its placement of in Houston, Texas, in 1979
What is the Whispering Pines Sanitary Landfill?
The seven core concepts of environmental health
What are toxicity, exposure, dose/response, individual susceptibility, risks and benefits, environmental justice, and community resources and action?
A person who works with the state government when creating laws relevant to the environment
What is a state environmentalist?