You are part of s puhlic health team that has been assigned to help teach health

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You are part of s puhlic health team that has been assigned to help teach health education lesson to a group of local farmers about off-target pesticides drift as you plan your lesson, describe how you would discuss 5 of the 10 topics provided below?

Please describe how you would include discuss any 5 of following topics:
1- Human and environment interaction

2. Human health risk assessment

3. Environmental agents and human disease

4. Air pollution

5. Water pollution
6. Human disease and
7 Toxic substances and pesticides
8. solid and hazardous wastes
9, Food safety

Explanation / Answer

Ans) 1 Human and environment interaction:

To explain this as, people modify the environment for their purposes and obtain benefits (Ecosystem Services) from it. These Ecosystem Services are essential for human well-being.

Example: The provision of resources like water, timber, food, energy, information, land for farming and many more.

2) Human health risk assessment:

- It is the process to estimate the nature and probability of adverse health effects in humans who may be exposed to chemicals in contaminated environmental media, now or in the future.

Includes 4 basic steps:

3) Environmental agents and human Disease

Environmental Agents: These are chemicals or factors in the environment to which humans are exposed that may cause adverse health effects.

Environmental agents which cause human diseases/disorders are-

4) Air pollution: - Air pollution may be defined as the presence of one or more contaminants like dust, mist, smoke and colour in the atmosphere that are injurious human beings, plants and animals.

Causes:

Examples include carbon monoxide gas from motor vehicle exhaust, or the sulfur dioxide released from factories. Secondary pollutants are not emitted directly. Rather, they form in the air when primary pollutants react or interact. Ground level ozone is a prominent example of a secondary pollutant.

Control & Prevention of air pollution:

Source control:

Control measures in industrial centers

9) Food safety:

Food Safety refers to handling, preparing and storing food in a way to best reduce the risk of individuals becoming sick from foodborne illnesses.

FDA, through its Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), regulates foods other than the meat, poultry, and egg products regulated by FSIS. FDA is also responsible for the safety of drugs, medical devices, biologics, animal feed and drugs, cosmetics, and radiation emitting devices.

Four basic steps to food safety at home:

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