Environmental Health Equity

Assignments Discussions Grades People Google Drive Office 365 As we begin to think about being active and prepared, explore  the website for The National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health  (Links to an external site.)  and the links that are specific to your region or area of interest to learn more about health (physical and psychosocial) and environmental impacts or preparedness needs for these disaster precipitators. In California we have the  Disaster Healthcare Volunteers Site  (Links to an external site.) , where healthcare professionals and those with healthcare experience can express a desire to be a volunteer should a disaster happen. Is there something similar in your town, city, county? I visited the website for the National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health and I was surprised to learn that there are over one million earthquakes that occur yearly worldwide. I read specifically about earthquakes beca...

BLOG about the following: What do you personally find most troubling about climate change? I find it troubling that we are all collectively destroying our home and worsening the health of everyone in the process. It is scary that we are all contributing to the destruction of planet earth and our own human health at such a rapid pace and are not doing anything to stop it. I fear that there will be mass extinction of the most vulnerable people on earth within our lifetimes. It makes me worry about the future of humanity and question whether it is even ethical for me to have children. It seems wrong to bring children into a world that we have already destroyed beyond repair and one that will poison them because of our bad actions, beginning in the womb.  As a public health professional, what do you think needs the greatest attention right now? I think everything needs attention. Climate change is honestly one of the most overwhelming topics for me to think about. My p...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF72px2R3Hg After finishing this module, including watching the YouTube video about a young woman who chose to live a ZERO WASTE life, consider your household waste stream. Are there changes that you might be able to make in your life to live a zero-waste life and enter your thoughts/ideas into your blog. I found Lauren Singer's argument for living a zero-waste life highly compelling and surprisingly manageable. I had assumed that living a zero-waste life would require drastic lifestyle changes that would simply not be feasible for me at this time. However, I have been conscious of the waste I produce for quite some time and have already implemented many of the changes Lauren suggested in her Ted Talk. I have to give credit to my partner and close friends who have been a positive impact on me and taught me how to reduce my waste over the past several years. I have made several changes including using only reusable bags, buying food in bulk ...

There are a number of classic occupational diseases.    Byssinosis  (Brown Lung),  Pneumoconiosis  (Black Lung),  Asbestosis  (White Lung) are among them.   Each of these diseases still affects many workers today.   Over the years there have been major public health campaigns to address them.  Organized labor has often lead the campaigns.    Select one of these diseases and search the web to learn about the history  of the public health campaigns and the  current status  of the disease and related occupational health policies.   (What are the OSHA or MSHA regulations regarding the exposures that cause the disease that you selected to review?)    Feature a short blurb on your blog regarding your selected occupationally-related disease. The disease I chose to research for this blog post is Pneumoconiosis or Black Lung disease. Black lung is also known as Coalworker's pneumoconiosi...

CHOOSE ONE of the following organizations/agencies: OSHA, CAL/OSHA, NIOSH, ILO, WHO, AFL-CIO Go to their website. Each of these occupational safety and health or labor organizations support a range of occupational health and safety programs. Select a health and safety program sponsored by one of these organizations, read about it. Provide a short summary on your BLOG and how it might relate to your health and safety. I chose the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) as the agency to explore for this blog post. I went to their website (link:  https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/index.htm ) and looked at all the different health and safety programs that they sponsor. The program I chose to read about in more depth is one of the programs in the NIOSH Research Program Portfolio. The program I read about the NIOSH Occupational Health Equity Program. The NIOSH Occupational Health Equity Program "seeks to promote health equity in disease incidence, injury, mental ...

Obtain a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) from your workplace or from the workplace of a family member or friend.   Material Safety Data Sheets are chemical information sheets created by chemical manufacturers that all employers are required to obtain and keep for any potentially hazardous chemicals in the workplace. For this blog post, I tried to find a material safety data sheet (MSDS) from UCSF. The MSDS I found is for "Equi-soft Foam Antimicrobial Handsoap"  Here is a link to the MSDS:  https://cleanhands.ucsfmedicalcenter.org/docs/Product%20information/Arichive/Equi-soft_Foam_MSDS.pdf Review  the MSDS and answer the following questions: What are the health risks associated with this chemical? There are four chemicals in the antimicrobial handsoap:  2-methylpentane-2,4-diol; amines, coco alkyldimethyl, n-oxides; Polyethylene Glycol; and benzalkonium chloride.  The health risk associated with these chemicals is they can cause eye irrita...