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Environmental Hazards, Risk, & Human Health
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Leading Causes of Mortality
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Public Health – Some Definitions
• Morbidity: incidence of disease in a population
• Mortality: incidence of death in a population
• Environment: combination of physical, chemical, and biological factors
• Hazard: anything that can cause injury, death, disease, damage to personal/public property, or deterioration or destruction of environmental components
• Risk: probability of suffering a loss as a result of exposure to a hazard
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What Are Environmental Hazards?
• They Can Be:– Cultural (food choices, smoking, alcohol)– Biological (bacteria, fungi, viruses, etc.)– Physical (tornadoes, hurricanes,
earthquakes)– Chemical (cleaning products, pesticides,
fuels, etc.)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWm6PUGpfVU
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Biological Hazards
• Not generally a consequence of choice
• Causes:– Pathogenic bacteria – Fungi – Viruses – Protozoans – Worms
• Is drinking untreated water from a mountain stream a cultural or biological hazard?
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TB 2001
Does the pattern on this map look anything like the patterns we saw elsewhere?
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Malaria, 1996
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Physical Hazards
• Weather-related: hurricane, tornado, flood, fire, etc.
• Non-weather-related: earthquake, tsunami, volcano
• Cannot be avoided, can be mitigated:– Building sites– Building design– Preparedness
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Chemical Hazards
• Industrialization Increased Exposure
• Industrialization also Increased Awareness
• What’s Important?– Exposure:
•Inhalation, ingestion, skin absorption– Dose– Examples?
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Potential Chemical Hazards in the Environment• Urban Air:
– lead– VOCs– NOx, sulfur oxides– Particulates– Ozone– CO
• Food and Water:– Pesticides– Heavy metals– Lead
• Indoors:– Particulates– CO– Asbestos (maybe)– Household product residues/fumes
• Land:– Heavy metals– Dioxins, PCBs, etc
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What are the Concerns?
• Acute Exposure: immediate health consequences– Serious, but often easily treatable
• Chronic Exposure: health consequences over time– Serious, less easy to treat
• Carcinogenic: initiates changes in cells– Read about Carcinogenesis in the text
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Example: Tobacco Use
442,300 deaths associated with smoking per year from 1995-1999
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Toxic Risk Pathways
• Indoor Air Pollution:– Both developed and developing countries– Sources are furniture, equipment, paint, etc– Building are sealed (saves energy)– Population spends more time indoors
• Added Concern in Developing Countries: heat/cook with biofuels– Respiratory infections, lung disease, lung
cancer, birth related problems
• Asthma and worms…
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Risk Assessment
• What is it?– The process of evaluating risks
associated with a particular hazard before taking some action where the hazard is present.
– Any examples in your life?
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Chemical Hazard Risk Assessment
• Historical Data – takes time
• Animal Testing– Is the animal a good model?– Cost– Ethical issues
• Chemical Structure– Chemical groups associated with hazards
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Dose-Response
• Dose: concentration exposed to
• Response: effect
• LD50– Lethal dose that causes 50% of
organisms to be affected/die
• Another Problem: is the chemical hazard chemically distinct or mixture?– Benzene vs. gasoline– Nicotine vs. cigarette smoke
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Exposure
• Who is exposed?• How often?• Route of entry?• Dose?• Duration?
• Food for thought: if you were exposed to the quantity of radiation received in your 3.75 HS years of television viewing in one minute, you would likely have negative consequences
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Risk Characterization
• Using previous data (LD50, risk assessment, exposures) to determine risk and uncertainties
• Expressed as a probability of fatal outcome (risk factors for causes of disease, 14.9% underweight in LDC)
• EPA and cancer risk:– Clean Air Act (1990) requires regulation of
chemicals with > 1/1,000,000 cancer risk
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Risk Management
• Cost-Benefit Analysis:– Example: emission controls (cars-yes,
lawnmower-no)
• Risk-Benefit Analysis:– Examples: medical X-rays, mountain biking
• Public Preference (risk perception) – tolerance for risks that they can control
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Risk Perception
• Familiarity – bees vs. sharks
• Voluntary – driving car vs. contaminated drinking water
• Public Impression – coal vs. nuclear
• Morality – wrong to destroy a coral reef
• Control – driving car vs. airplane flight
• Fairness - coal mine neighbor vs. coal mine owner
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