Chp 9 Environmental Health Review

What are types of environmental health hazards that include viruses, bacteria, and other organisms that cause disease?

• social
• biological
• physical
• chemical

What are types of environmental health hazards that include lifestyle choices that endanger health?

• social
• biological
• physical
• chemical

What are types of environmental health hazards that include harmful artificial and natural chemicals in the environment?

• social
• biological
• physical
• chemical

What are types of environmental health hazards that include natural disasters and ongoing natural phenomena?

• social
• biological
• physical
• chemical

The study of disease in human populations is _______.

• epidemiology
• toxicology
• a dose-response relationship
• risk assessment

True or False: Epidemiology can determine statistical associations between health hazards and effects, but can’t prove the hazards actually caused the effects.

• True
• False

What is the study of how poisonous substances affect an organism’s health?

• toxicity
• epidemiology
• toxicology
• environmental health

What is the measure of how harmful a substance is?

• toxicity
• epidemiology
• toxicology
• environmental health

A person's age, sex, weight, health issues, and genetic makeup influence how he or she responds to ______.

• risk assessment
• environmental hazards
• natural disasters
• antibiotic resistance

Risk assessment takes which of the following into account?

• The type of hazard
• How frequently humans will be exposed to it
• How sensitive people are to it
• All of the above