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Environmental Health
Key Terms-Environmental Health
Substance Use
Environmental Health
Environmental Contaminants
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This is the first step a nurse should take when assessing potential environmental health risks in the community.

What is perform a windshield survey?

100
between native born and immigrant populations this group has higher rates of substance use
Who is Native-born
100
Act passed in 1970 to create a national program to control the damaging effects of air pollution.
What is Clean Air Act
100
Commonly found in old paint and homes built before 1978
What is lead
200

This assessment may include questions about the client's past or current exposure to radiation and/or chemicals.

What is an environmental health assessment?

200
The belief that no group of people should bear a disproportionate share of negative environmental health consequences (regardless of race, culture or income).
What is Environmental Justice
200
The most frequently used illicit substance in the United States
What is cannabis
200

Name given to the environmental program established to address abandoned hazardous waste sites.

What is Superfund

200
Applied commercially and privately to protect plants and crops from pests
What is pesticides
300

A secondary prevention effort to reduce environmental health risks.

What is screening for lead poisoning?

300
The total amount of a contaminant that comes in direct contact with the body.
What is Exposure
300
Activity that peaks during young adulthood (ages of 18 and 25 years)
What is Binge Drinking
300
Can help nurses identify current or past exposures, eliminate exposures and try to mitigate or reduce a client's adverse health effects from exposures
What is Exposure History
300
Can enter the environment, settle into water and bioaccumulate in fish
What is mercury
400

The three major sources of air pollution in the United States.

What are burning fossil fuels, waste incineration, and motor vehicles.

400
Process to help determine whether an individual has been exposed to environmental contaminants.
What is Exposure History
400
Condition characterized by infants born with facial dysmorphia, growth problems, and central nervous system abnormalities, including neurological problems and cognitive and functional deficits
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
400
Will likely cause a shift in the number and severity of natural disasters, such as heat waves, floods and droughts.
What is Climate Change
400
Acute infectious disease caused by a spore-forming bacterium.
What is Anthrax Spores
500

The main reason children are more susceptible to environmental toxins.

What is their smaller size?

500
Process of using medical tests such as blood or urine collection to determine whether a person has been exposed to a contaminant and how much exposure he or she has received.
What is Biomonitoring
500
Goal-directed, client centered counseling style for eliciting behavioral change by helping clients to explore and resolve ambivalence.
What is Motivational Interviewing
500
Can help mitigate exposure to harmful contaminants and also encourage good health by incorporating design principles that optimize the physical, social and economic environment of the community.
What is Healthy Communities
500
Cancer causing agent made of a group of six different fibrous minerals that occur the naturally in the environment and used commonly in manufactured goods and building materials.
What is Asbestos