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30 Cards in this Set
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Health |
State of complete physical, mental & social well being |
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Disease |
Abnormal change in body's condition that impairs important physical or psychological functions |
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Mordibity |
Illness & disease |
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Mortality |
Death |
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Environmental Health |
Focus on factors that that cause disease |
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Disability Adjusted Life Years |
(DALY) Measure of disease burden |
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Pathogens |
Disease causing organisms afflict humans including viruses, bacteria, protozoans, parasitic worms & flukes |
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Emergent Diseases |
Not previously known or that have been absent for at least 20 years |
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Conservation Medicine |
Emerging discipline that attempts to understand how our environment changes threaten our health as well as the natural communities we depend on |
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Allergens |
Substances that activate immune system |
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Antigens |
Stimulate the production of specific antibiotics |
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Sick Building Syndrome |
Cluster of allergies & other illnesses caused by sensitivity to molds, synthetic chemicals or other harmful compounds |
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Neurotoxins |
Specific class of metabolic poisons that specifically attack nerve cells |
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Toxic |
Poisonous |
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Mutagens |
Agents that damage DNA in cells |
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Teratogens |
Chemicals or other factors that specifically cause abnormalities during growth & development |
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome |
A cluster of symptoms including craniofacial abnormalities, development delays, behavior problems & mental defects that effects a child's life |
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Carcinogens |
Substances that cause cancer |
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Cancer |
Invasive out of control cell growth that result in maligant tumors |
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Endocrine Hormones Disrupters |
Chemicals that interrupt the normal endocrine hormone factors |
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Bioaccumulation |
Selective absorption & storage of a great variety of molecules |
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Biomagnification |
Occurs when toxic burden of larger number of organisms is low and the concentration of the predator is high |
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Persistent Organic Pollutants |
(POP) Chemical compounds that persist in environment & retain biological activity for a long time |
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Synergism |
Interaction which one subject intensify the effect of the other |
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LD50 |
Chemical dose lethal to 50% of a test population |
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Retrospective Study |
Identify a group of people who have been exposed to a suspected risk factor |
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Prospective Study |
Identify a study group & control group then keep track of everything they do & how it affects their health |
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Acute Effects |
Caused by a single exposure to the threat & result in an immediate hath crisis |
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Chronic Effects |
Long lasting |
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Epigenome |
DNA & it's associated proteins & other small molecules that regulate gene function on ways that can affect multiple generations |
