CH LM 11
Environmental Health
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Historical
Nightingale Wald 1996
Toxicology Timing (in utero?) Who is more at risk?
Basic Tenant:
IMust inform community members
PPresent work MSDS
RResidence
EEnviron. concerns Highest CA deaths attributed to environmental factors
PPast work Diet, tobacco, natural hormones
AActivities
RReferrals & resources
EEducate
Primary Prevention Tertiary Prevention Role for nurses in environ. health
Reduce, reuse, recycle Screen for exposure
Environmental
influences health &
illness recovery
Coined "PH Nurse"
Lived at Henry St.
Settlement
Food Quality Protection Act
Protect infants/children from pesticide exposure.
Prohibits considering economics when kids are
at risk
Negative effects of
chem. exposures
How do chems enter
our body?
All substances are poison. The right dose differentiates a poison and a
remedy.
Investigate potential
exposures
Right to know
reports
Environmental risks often borne disproportionately by poor or
minority communities
Secondary
Prevention
Preven complications
from exposures
Community involvment, ind. & pop. risk assessment
Risk communication
Epidemiological investigations
Policy development
