Flashcards on Chapter 17: Human Health and Environmental Risks, created by sabrinapar22 on 03/03/2015.
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What are the three major categories of risks that can harm human health?
What is a disease?
Which category of human health risks causes the most human deaths?
infectious diseases
Which six types of illnesses account for 94% of all deaths caused by infectious diseases?
chronic diseases
acute diseases
leading health risks for chronic disease of low income countries, from greatest risk to least
leading health risks for chronic disease of high income countries, from greatest risk to least
epidemic
pandemic
plague
malaria
tuberculosis
What happens when a patient does not take the prescribed dose of medicine for the full duration time?
emergent infectious diseases
AIDS
HIV
Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever
Mad Cow disease
bird flu
West Nile Virus
How are diseases combated in low income countries?
How is disease combated in high income countries?
How is disease combated in both high and low income countries?
neurotoxins
carcinogens
mutagens
teratogens
allergens
endocrine disruptors
dose-response studies
What does a graph for a dose-response study generally look like?
LD50
sublethal effects
ED50
Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act of 1996
How is the safe concentration of chemicals calculated for animals?
How is the safe concentration of chemicals calculated for humans?
chronic studies
epidemiology
retrospective studies
prospective studies
synergistic interactions
What factors determine the concentrations of chemicals that organisms experience?
routes of exposure
solubility
bioaccumulation
process of bioaccumulation
What factors does the rate of accumulation of a chemical in an organism depend on?
biomagnification
persistence
What factors determine a chemical's persistence?
How do scientists measure the persistence of a chemical
environmental hazard
risk assessment
qualitative risk assessment
perceived risk vs. actual risk
quantitative risk assessment
risk acceptance
risk management
