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Environmental health

Determined by pbysical biological social chemical and psychological factors in the environment

Six tests of a chemical's toxicity

Acute toxicity


Chronic toxicity


Mutogenic


Ecotoxicity


Environmental fate


Development and reproductive toxicity

Environmental degradation

Natures resources are being consumed more than how nature can regenerate them


Humans destroy the ecosystem for development

Outdoor air pollution

Ozone


Lead


Carbon monoxide


Sulfur dioxide


Nitrogen dioxide

Indoor air pollution

Benzene from tobacco


Formaldehyde in carpets and building materials

Biological hazards

Infectious/parasites > 50%


Vectors 25%

Ecosystem

The interaction of biotic and abiotic factors

Food chain

Illustration of energy flow in a ecosystem

Sustainable development

Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of the future generation to meet their own needs

Health promoting school

School constantly strengthening it capacity as a health setting for leaving learning and working

Sanitary and excreted disposal facility

35-40 girls- 1 WC/toilet with partition


30-40 boy- I WC with 1 urinal


30 STudents - one had washing basin


Drinking fountain 75 students

Outdoor play area

No sharp objects


Enclosed protective surface

Qualified staff

Certified in first aid


Background check


Demonstrate respect for each child

Health in prison

Breeding ground for communicable diseases


Worsen prisoners mental health


Prisoner return to there community


1WC- 8inmate


1 shower- 15 inmates

Major health concern in prison

Drugs


Mental


Sexual


Overcrowding


Violence


Communicable disease

Hospital

Provide acute care


Diagnosis and treatment

Nursing home

Provide long term care


Rehabilitation

Nosocomal infection

Infection contracted at the hospital

Endogenous infection

Self contaminated auto infection

Cross contaminated

Cross infection

Food borne illness

Caused by bacteria


Disturbance in the GI system


Eating food contaminated with harmful bacterial or their toxins

Water activity

An index of the available moisture in food for microbial growth

Food temperature

40-140 F


4.4- 60 C


Danger zone

Biotechnology

Using living organisms or components of living organisms to make products

Genetically modified foods

Resistance to disease pests cold


Reduce maturation time


Nutraceuticals

A group of natural substances

Food infection

Caused by live bacteria


Salmonella and shigella

Food intoxication

Caused by bacteria waste produced called toxins


Staphylococcus aureus clostridium botulinum

Bacteria that causes FBI

Salmonella


Shigella


Staphylococcus aureus

Virus that causes FBI

Norwalk


Adeno


Rota


Hepatitis A

Disease with the largest environmental factors

Diarrhea


Lower respiratory infection


Other injuries


Malaria

Exposure pathway

The route a substance take from its source to its end point and how people can come onto contact with it.

Exposure pathway five parts

A source of contamination


An environmental media transport mechanism


A point exposure


A route of exposure


A receptor population


When all five are present its called complex exposure pathway

Housing development and hazardous waste in jamaica

Old harbour- asbestos waste site


Kingston red pond (st.catherine ) lead waste

Institution

A complete property with building facilities and service having a social educational and religious purpose

Recommended group size to staff ratio in DCC

Infants -12


Toddlers 15


Two years 18


Three four five 20


School age 30

Pest

Any organism that annoys human being compete for space and food and spread disease to humans and their animals

Mechanical transmission of vectors

Parasites neither changes or multiply


the arthropod is a vehicle which transport the parasite


Cockroaches and flies

Prevention of nosocomial infection

Isolation


proper sanitation


Equipment steralize

Biological transmission

Parasite multiple and or change

Types of biological transmission

Propagative


Cyclo- developmental


Cyclo-propagated

Propagative

The parasite multiply in the vector but does not change its form


Eg. Yellow fever virus

Cyclo-developmental

Parasite change its form but do not multiply


Eg. Filarial parasite in a vector mosquito

Cyclo-propagative

The parasite changes its form and multiply


Eg. Malaria parasite

Primary host

A animal in which a parasite undergoes maturity or carry out its sexual cycle

Secondary host

An animal in which the parasite is in its larva stage or carries on asexual development

Intrinsic incubation periods

The time interval between the entrance of the parasite in the man and the appearance of the signs and symptoms of the disease

Extrinsic incubation period

Time interval for the parasite to infect someone else

German and American cockroaches

Survive 2-3 months without food 1 month without water


Cockroach in the Caribbean


Produce odorous secretion which can affect the flavor of food


American cockroach

800 offsprings per year


Live 14-15 months


Males live shorter


Egg


|


Nyphm


|


Nymph


|


Adults

German cockroach

3500 per year


Prefer kitchen and bathroom

Fly life cycle

Egg -> larva (maggot) -> pupa -> adult

Fly

Females lay 500 batches


Larva 3-9mm emerge out of egg 8-20 hours in warn weather


Adult live 15-25days


Suck substances containing sweets and decayed substanced

Mosquito

Aedes aegypti yellow and dengue fever


Anopheles albimanus malaria

Anopheles

Only female have a blood meal can transmitte malaria

Lice

Eggs called nits


Egg(nits)- nymph> adults


Cycle complain 21-27 days


Live 35-40 days


Adult lice killed in 5 minutes and egg in 10 minutes in water 125F water


Feed on blood

Bed bugs

Live 6-12 months


Egg-> larva-> adult


Cimex lectularius

Fleas

Feed on blood


Detect changes in CO hence jump when animal breath


Continue to feed long after their hunger is satisfied


Affects humans and animals


Carry bubonic plague


Egg-> larva -> cocoon-> adults

Rattus norvegicus

Brown sewer Norway rat


Tail shorter than head and body


tail darker Color e on top


Nose and muzzle blunt


Rattus rattus

Black roof rat


Tail longer than body and head


Same color tall nose and muzzle pointed

Mus musculus

House mouse


Tail Longer than head and body combined

Disease transmitted by rodents

Virus rabies


Bacteria leptospirosis

Component of IPM

Inspection/monitoring


Identification


Establishment


implementation of two or more control measures


Measurements and evaluation

Symptoms of celiac disease

T cell mediated


Malabsorption

Outbreak

An unexpected unexplained increase of disease

Endemic epidemic and pandemic

Geographical area


Community or small group


Worldwide

Sand fly

Small


Related to mosquito


Fly rapidly


Transmitted leishmaniasis

Kissing bug

Large


Nocturnal habitual


Painless bit


Bit and release infected faeces when a person scratches it release th infection in it


Bit soft area


Cause chagas disease

Chagas disease

Caused by tryponsomia crues


Kissing bug


Chronic organ failure and risk of death due to decrease heart function over the years

Tick

On animals


Lyme disease


Egg-> larva;> nymph-> adult


Detect changes in CO level

Lyme disease

Borrelia bugdorferi


EM


Arthritis


Bells palsy


Caused by ticks

Dracunculiasis

Crippling disease


Painful blisters after one year of infection on legs relieved by placing feet in water and larva run out


10-14 months

Leishmaniasis

Caused by sand fly


Cutaneous


Diffuse cutaneous


Mucocutanous


Visceral

Black flies

Egg-> larva-> pups -> adult


River blindness


Oncho


Nodules


Bite in the day


Ivermectin


Shitosomiasis

Worm egg has the infection


Haematuria


Bladder cancer


Proziquantel

Lighting in operating table

Major - 1000


Minor - 200

Route of transmission for nosocomial infection

Direct


Indirect


Airborne


Vector

Staff to resident ratio in nursing home

1:15 day


1:25 night

Vector

Agent that transmit infection

Transovarial transmission

The passing of the infection from females to eggs

Transstadial transmission

The passing of infection from larva/nymph to adult

Hydrologic cycle

Evapo-transiration


Condensation


Precipitation


infiltration


Run off


All continuous except precipitation

Infiltration

Water soaking through soil


Confide to the root

Percolation

Deep vertical movement of water in the soil goes beyond the root

Run off

Surface soils become saturated

Rainfall intensity

The amount of rainfall occurring during a specific time

Evaporation

Heat from the sun evaporates water


The water vapor move in the cloud and stay there by moving air masses

Sources of water used for domestic use

Rain water


Surface water ground water


Sea and ocean water

Watershed

An area where surface runoff is carried away by a single drainage system

Surface water from

Ground water


Precipitation


Mote heavily chlorinated can gain more THM

Aquifer

The soil that holds ground water

Ground water

Water in its zone of saturation


Best source for domestic water

Water table

The upper surface of the zone of saturation

Water usage country

Asia has 60%

Water stress

When water drop below 1700 cubic meter per person

Water scarcity

Water below 1000 cubic meter per person

Country not in the MDG water drinking target

Sub Saharan Africa

Water quality characteristics

Physical


Chemical


Biological


Radiological

Portable water

Water free from toxic chemical, pathogen odorless, palatable colorless and palatable

Safe water

Water that is free from pathogens and toxic chemicalshave have a cloud taste bad and may have a smell

Water borne disease

When u drink the water


Eg cholera typhoid

Water washed disease

Due to inadequate amount of water


Eg salmonella shigella

Water related disease

Communion contact with water


Guinea worm schistomomiasis

Water based insect vector disease

Insects that breath in water


Malaria dengue yellow fever

Sanitation related disease

Failure to dispose of stool result in direct contact


Hookworm

Improved drinking water

Water from pipes

Other improve drinking water

Water from wells


Porter springs and rivers

Unprotected water

Bottled water


Unprotected water

Water disinfection methodes

Cholrination


UV light - kill microorganisms


Ozone


Microiltration


Boiling

Bromine

Dark reddish brown


Irritates eyes nose and throat


Painful burns slow healing


Leave a residue unstable


Clean swimming pool

Iodine

No residue


Bluish black


Use for medical purpose

Ozone

Bluish


Toxic gas


Requires a lot of energy

Water treatment process

Screening- removal of large rocks and debris


Microstraining- remove small Ricks and debris


Aeration- remove gas and odours


Coagulation- convert non settle particles into syllable particle


Flocculation same as coagulation


Sedimentation - remove settable particles


Softening- remove hardness


Filtration - remove fine particle


Absorption- remove organics and colour


Fluoridation - strength tooth enamel


Stabilization - prevent scaling and erosion


Disinfection - remove disease causing organisms


Clean water

Five factors for successful chlorination

Substance in water


Concentration


Contact time


pH


Temperature


Reverse osmosis

Movement of solvent from a region og high concentration to a region of low concentration under pressure

Treatment for bottled water

Chlorination


filtration


Ozone


UV light


Reverse osmosis

Excreta

Waste matter eliminated from the body

Waste water

Used water from house or community

Black water

Waste water from water closet and other thing

Grey water

All the other domestic waste water

Type of on site disposal

Non water carriage or conservancy


Water carriage


Sewage works/ small treatment plants

Ventilated improved pit

Where odour nd fly is controlled


No lid over squat hole


Inside dark as possible


Double compartment leave airspace so the faeces can breakdown and you can reuse for life

Composting toilet

Where kitchen waste and toilet waste come together to form compost


Costly


Use where human excreta is used as fertilizer

Non water carriage disposal

Simple pit


VIP


Composting toilet


Parachuting


Bucket latrine


Bore hole latrine

Water carriage system

Chemical toilet


Pour flush toilet


Septic tanks

Pour flush toil

Not used in cold areas as water will freeze


Odour and flies are controlled


Contrails a water trap to prevent odour of commuting back up in the bathroom

Septic tank

Water tight tank design to settle out and break down sewage solids to prevent clogging


Tile field always with it

Palatable water

Unpleasant water

Chlorination

Increase Chlorine decrease the residual


Keep increasing leads to the breaking point


The more chlorine the more protection

Chlorination products

Trihalomethanes more in saturated water


Chloroform carcinogenic

Pathogens

Ability to cause infection

Inoculum

Number of organisms present

Opportunistic organisms

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Hospital acquired infection

UTI


Septicemia


RTI

Conservancy

Sanitation system where fecal matter is retained in a closet apparatus

Cryptosporidiodis

Chlorine resistant


Get rid of by filtration


Water borne


Located in swimming pool

Exotic disease

Disease imported in a country eg rabies in UK

Sporadic disease

Scattered about the world

Biochemical oxygen demand BOD

It is a measure of the degree of water pollution


5 days at 20 degree Celsius

Chemical oxygen demand

It is measured in relation to industrial wastes

Suspended solids

Solid that are visible and in suspension in water

Eutrophication

Over enrichment of water with nutrients resulting in the excess growth of organisms and depletion of oxygen concentration

Wastewater treatment

Preliminary


Primary


secondary


Tertiary

Preliminary treatment

Screening


Grit chamber remove abrasive suspenders particle eg sand


Comminutor shred materials not removed by screen

Secondary treatment

Sludge is produce remove pathogen


Followed by chlorination


Trickling filter remove pathogens but not legislates


Stabilizating pond remove everything

Tertiary treatment

Removal of nutrients

Measles

Kopliks spots on buccal mucosa


Respiratory distress


Fever


Rash


ssRNA


Lipid envelope

Clinical features of measles

IP- 10-14


Kopliks spot on buccal mucosa


Splenomegaly appendicitis lymphodenopathty


Conjunctivitis


Rubella

Toga virus


Haemagglutinis


ssRNA

Clinical features of rubella

IP 16-21 days


Rash


Mild conjunctivitis


Low grade fever


Sore throat

Congenital defects because of rubella

Eye defect retinopathy glaucoma cataract


Heart disease patent ductous arteriol


Mental retardation


Sever hepatitis


Bone lesion


Heptosplwnmegaly

Rubella shots

15 months of age

Varicella zoster virus

Chicken pox- primary


Shingles- recurrent VSV


3 DNA virus

VSV clinical features

IP 10-23 days


Enanthem vesicles in mouth and palete

VSV syndrome

Scarring of skin


Hypoplasia of limbs


Muscle dystrophy


Cataracts


Vesicles in mouth

HPV

dsDNA


Papilloma

Ano-genital

HPV 16 18 31 33


Associated with invasive cancer

Parvovirus

DNA


Mild rash

Small pox

IP 10-14 days


High fever


Fatigue


Delirium vomiting and diarrhoea


Rash


Molluscum contagiosum

IP 14-50 days

Cohorting

Placing a patient with the same pathogen in the same room.

Special measures

Placing patron with the same suspected diagnosis in the same area before the cause agent is lab Confirmed

Engineering controls

Methods of isolating or removing hazards from the workplace

Oxidation beds

Lotd of land


Practice in jamaica cheaper

Extended aeriation system

Fit in small area


Need air in the tank at all time


Expensive


Need a stand by generated electricity

Solid waste

Non liquid waste material other than solids in waste water

Refuse

All perishable and non perishable solid waste except human body waste

Garbage

Consist of animal and vegetable waste

Swill

Special type of garbage that is useable or have some type of value

Rubbish

Combustible and non combustan me waste

Composting

Biological degradation or breakdown of organic matter under aerobic or anaerobic condition

Types of landfill

Uncontrolled type A


Controlled type B


Isolated/secure type C

Hyperendemic

Disease is of high prevalence and affect all age group

Holoendemic

Disease is prevelance but affect younger children

Herpesvirus structure

Spherical


Linear dsDNA


Glycoprotein spikes


amorphous layer of protein


162 campsomers

Alpha herpes virus

HHV 1


HHV 2


HHV 3- VZV

Gamma herpes

HHV 4 EBV


HHV 8 Kapossi sarcoma

Beta herpes

HHV 5 CMV


HHV 6


HHV 7

HSV

IP 2-12 days


HSV 1 close contact oral secretion perinatal oral


HSV 2 genital secreation perinatal close contact genital neonate


IgG

Types of infection for 1 HSV

Primary first infection with either HSV 1 or 2 with no pre existing antibodies to either type


Non primary first infection with HSV 1 or 2 with pre existing antibodies to either type

Type of infection 2 HSV

Endogenous infection of the same strain of virus at a different site


Exogenous infection of different strain of virus

EBV

Gamma


HHV 4


Transmission


Oral secretion kissing disease


Perinatal


Direct contact


Blood transfusion


Organ transplantation


IgM and IgG

EBV symptoms

Fatigue


Fever


Sore throat


Swollen lymph glands


Oral hairy leukoplakia HIV


Nasopharyngeal carcinoma Chinese


Burkitts lymphoma blacks

CMV

Beta


HHV 5


Mononucleosis


Sore throat


headache


Guillain barre syndrome


Pneumoniae


Myocardium


Encephalitis


Retinitis


Icteric hepatitis


IgM and IgG

HSV stages of infection

1- acute mucocutanous infection


2- spread to local sensory nerve ending


3- period of latency


4- reactivation of the virus and distal spread


5- recurrent cutaneous infection

Important fleas

Human flea- pulex irritans


Oriental rat flea- xenopsylla cheopis

Mosquito

Anopheles albimanus- malaria


Aedes aegypi- yellow fever and dengue


Aedes taenioehynchus- serious biting pest


Culex quinquefasciatus- evenings night biting pest of west Nile fever


Culex negripalpus- encephalitis

Anapheles

Malaria


Single egg with floats


Air tube absent


Rest parallel to water surface


More body touches surface


Palps long


Angled

Aedes

Yellow fever dengue


Single eggs on dry surface


Air tube present


Rest at an angle below water surface


Less body touches surface


Palps short


Horizontal

Culex

Floating egg raft


Water tube present


Rest at an angle below water surface


Less of the body touches surface


Palps short


Horizontal

Malaria

Eradicated from jamaica in the early 60


Caused by plasmodium parasites


Plasmofium falciparum is the most deadly


Spread by anopheles


Bite at night


Egg-》 larva-》pupa-》adult


The first three stages complete in 5-14days


Last stage is when it acts as a malaria vector last 1-2days

Malaria clinical features

IP 10-15 days


Fever


Headache


Chills


Vomiting

Relative risk

The measure of the association of exposure and illness


The ratio of the attack rate for ill persons who are exposed to the ratio of the attack rate for ill persons who were not exposed


(A/a+b)/(c/c+d)

Examples of arthropod

Diseases caused hemorrhagic fever

Dengue


Yellow fever

Antiviral encephalitides

Eastern equine encephalitis


Western equine encephalitis


St.Louis encephalitis


La Crosse encephalitis


Ticks

Toga virus

EEE


WEE


VEE


chik

Bunyaviruses

Sand fly


Rift valley fever

Flaviviruses

Yellow fever


Dengue


WNV

Chikungunya

Toga virus


Aedes mosquito


RNA virus


Alpha virus


Daytime biter on ankle


2-12 days

Symptom of chick V

Fever chills


Headache nausea vomiting abdominal pain


Joint pain with or without swelling


Rash


No hemorrhagic or shock syndrom


High fever flu like symptoms headache

Pregnancy and ChickV

Can pass to fetus 3-4 months of gestation


IgG develops in 2 weeks after chick V


No miscarriage

Dengue virus

Flavivirus


RNA


Aedes mosquito


Human mosquitoes human cycle


Virus replicate in salivary glands

Four dengue clinical feature

Undifferentiated fever


Dengue fever


Dengue hemorrhagic fever


Dengue stroke syndrome

Hemorrhagic manifestation of dengue

Skin bleeding


Gingival bleeding


Nasal bleeding


Everything woth bleeding


Fever followed by hypothermia


Red spots

Dengue shock syndrome

Circulatory failure


Rapid and weak pulse


Narrow pulse pressure


Hypotension


Cold clammy skin and altered mental status

Yellow fever

Flavivirus


Aedes aegypi


West africa


South africa


Jungle yellow fever involve forest mosquito

Symptoms of yellow fever

Chills fever headache


Myalgias


GI complaints


Bradycardia


Jaundice


Heamorrhage


Frank YF develop hypotension


Available vaccine

West nile virus

Flavivrus


ssRNA


Bird reservoir host


Culex species


2-14 days

Syndrome of west nile

Fever


Seizures


Weakness


Change in mental status


Optic neurosis


Encephalitis


Can have meningitis without encephalitis

Japanese encephalitis

Culex mosquito


Mosquito birds and pigs


Encephalitis


Vaccine available

Acyclovir MOA

1-It is phosphorylated by virus specific thymidine kinase to ACV-MP


2-cellular kinases subsequently phosphorylate ACV-DP then ACV-TO


3-ACV-TP competes with natural substrate dGTP for viral DNA polymerase


4- ACV-TP becomes incorporated into newly synthesized vDNA chain termination

Lighting in classroom and auditorium

50


10

Residual chlorine value

0.2-0.5 mg/l

Conservancy

Sanitation system in which fecal matter is retained in a closet appertus rather than being water carried


Simple pit latrin

Cheap


When water is not available


Source for fly and odors

Ventilated improved pit

Odor and fly is controlled


No lid on squat hole


Inside dark


Double compartment

Compositing toilet

Suitable where human excreta is useful for fertilization


Costly


Unhealthy

Septic tank

Water tight tank designed to settle out and break down sewage solids to prevent clogging

Non water carrige conservancy

Simple pits


VIP


Composting toilet


Parachuting

Water-carriage

Septic tank


Chemical toilet


Pour flush tiolet

Eutrophication

The over enrichment of nutrients in the water which leads to rapid growth of the organism and decrease in oxygen concentration

Grit chamber

Remove abrasive suspended particles such as sand

Comminutor

Shred particls not removed by sand

Pre liminary treatment for water

Screening


Grit chamber


Comminutor

Secondary treatment for water

Oxidation/stabilization ponds


Trickling filters


Followed by chlorination

Sludge in oxidation system

Remove bacteria but not lepsospirosis

Stabilization pond

Prevent all virus bacteria and leptospirosis

Tertiary treatment for water

Remove nutrients

Measle

IP 10-14days


Koplike spot


Conjunctivitis cough and coryza


Use giemsa stained smears

Rubella

16-21days IP


ENCEPHALITIS


Patent ductous arteriol

Varicella zoster virus

Cause chicken pox and shingles


IP- 10-23DAY

EBV

Infective mononucleosis


Sore throat


Fever


Lymphodenopaty


Manifestation- nasopharyngeal carcinoma


Oral haity leukocyte


Burkitts lymphoma

Aeration system

Expensive


Secondary water treatment


Require lots of energy

Direct detection EBV diagnosis

PCR


EM electron microscope IEM

CMV symptoms

Encephalitis


Retinitis


hepatitis


M yocarditis


Pneumonia


Gillian Barre syndrome

Treatment for EBV

Acyclovir

Treatment for CMV

Fomivirisen


Foscarnet

Solid waste

Non liquid waste material other than solid in water

Swill

Garbage with value and can be re used

Garbage

Perishable items such as vegetable and meat

Rubbish

Non perishable items


plastic

Leachate

Any liquid when passing through matter extract soluble and suspended solids