Environmental Health and Pollution

Which of the following WOULD NOT be regarded as a measure to avoid the impact of water pollution in our health?

• Not dump garbage in rivers or around them.

• Drink fruit juices instead of drinking so much water.

• Never dispose of cooking fats and oils by pouring them down the sink.

• Encourage your government to implement environment friendly policies.

Environmental pollution is the release of ......... waste that causes detrimental effects on the environment.

Environmental pollution is often divided into pollution of ............. supplies, the ........., and the ...........

• chemical / water / atmosphere / soil

• chemical / sea / air / garbage

• agents / water / atmosphere / soil

Indoor environmental pollution ...

• ... is not as dangerous as outdoor pollution.

• ... can be worse than outdoor pollution.

• ...can be 100% avoided with some simple measures.

Which sentence is NOT true?

• There isn't much I can do as individual to improve the level of environmental pollution.

• Outdoor pollution is always worse than indoor pollution.

The environmental burden of disease ...

• ... quantifies the amount of disability and death caused by environmental risks.

• ... tries to prevent early deaths due to environmental risks.

• quantifies the amount of deaths caused by environmental risks.

Tick all sentences that are true.

• Cancer can be caused by environmental pollution.

• Outdoor air pollution is responsible for many premature deaths each year.

• quantifies the amount of deaths caused by environmental risks.

Who of the following people has more possibilities of being struck by an environmental disease, if we take into account exposure to damaging agents?

• Your teacher, who doesn’t like sunbathing at all.

• Your great grandfather, who was a pirate for 40 years.

• Your cousin, who has been a farmer for years and uses lots of pesticides.

• Your aunt, who is a nurse and has ot to manage an x-ray machine from time to time.

How can we know to what extent environmental air pollution harms population health?

• Calculating the environmental burden of disease.

• It is impossible to know, we can only imagine because it cannot be quantified.

• By counting how many people die each year in a city due to diseases caused by air pollution.

• By calculating the ratio of factories and inhabitants in an area.