Geography 3432
Environment and Health
Introduction and Overview
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Summary Example – Love Canal
This video summarizes many of the issues we will cover in the first
half of the course.
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Intro
• Discussion: Is the world more dangerous?
• Historical context
• Concepts/definitions
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Toxicology
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What is toxicology?
Toxins in the body
Toxicity of chemicals
Tests for toxicity
Limits to toxicology
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Epidemiology
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What is epidemiology?
Limits to epidemiology
Assessing epidemiological evidence
Epidemiologic study designs
Epidemiology scare of the week
ecological fallacy
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Air Contamination
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Context
Body’s response to air pollution
CACs: health effects, trends, sources
Indoor air pollution
Control
Regulation
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Risk Assessment and Management
• Risk assessment
– Hazard identification
– Exposure assessment
• Risk management
– Risk evaluation
– Risk perception
– Risk communication
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Health and the Built Environment I
• Frank et al. Model
• Physical activity and health
• Suburbanization and design
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Health and the Built Environment II
• Social capital
– Characteristics
– Trends
– Social capital and health
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Environmental Equity and Policy
• Environmental justice
• Environmental equity
– Types of environmental equity
• Patterns of environmental inequity
• Explanations for inequities
Source:
Jerrett et al. (2001)
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Environment, Health and the Media
• Does the media set the agenda on environmental
health for the public or the other way around?
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If you think that skull on Yucca mountain
was scary…
• Please do not be fooled by the simple look of the
midterm and exam, I expect well written and
detailed answers. Draw material from readings,
lectures and tutorial discussions.
Geog 3432 Midterm Grades 2010
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less 50
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50-59
60-69
70-79
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80-89
90-100
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But the midterm is only one component of
the course…
• I do not fit (bell curve) grades to a distribution but the
patterns below are typical for this course
• Class average 72%; median 73%
Geog 3432 Final Grade Distribution 2010
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less 50
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50-59
60-69
70-79
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90-100
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