Environmental Health

the study of how environmental factors affect human health and quality of life

• environmental science

• environmental health

• does-response relationship

• epidemiology

the level of exposure to a pollutant or other hazardous substance

• response

• pathogen

• risk

• dose

the study of how poisons affect an organism's health

• toxicology

• toxicity

• risk

• risk assessment

something that threatens or is harmful to human health

• pathogen

• risk

• hazard

• response

the study of disease in human populations

• toxicology

• toxicity

• environmental health

• epidemiology

the effect on an organism at different levels of exposure to a pollutant or other hazardous substance

• dose-response relationship

• pathogen

• risk assessment

• environmental health

the effect on an organism of an exposure to a pollutant or other hazardous substance

• toxicity

• pathogen

• response

• dose

the process of measuring risk

• risk assessment

• response

• dose-response relationship

• dose

Disease-causing microorganism, such as a bacterium or fungus.

• antigen
• prion
• pathogen
• allergen

a tiny, non-living particle that invades and then multiplies inside a living cell is called

• bacteria
• a virus
• a fungi
• ha protist