Consumer Health Quiz: Ch.13-15

What are the components of CSHP?

1. health education 2. health services 3. counseling 4. psychological and social services 5. nutrition 6. physical education/physical activity 7. school staff wellness 8. healthy school environment and student/parent/community involvement

Steps for creating local health related policies include: (7 things)

1. identify the policy development team 2. assess the district's needs 3. prioritize needs and develop an action plan 4. draft a policy 5. build awareness and support 6. adopt and implement the policy 7. maintain, measure and evaluate

The element of a septic system in which the liquid portion of waste is distributed

Absorption field:

An index (number between 0 and 500) that indicates the level of pollution in the air and associated health risk

Air Quality index:

Contamination of the air that interferes with the comfort, safety, and health of living organisms

Air pollution:

Nonpoint source pollution

All pollution that occurs through the runoff, seepage, or falling of pollutants into the water

Porous, water-saturated layers of underground bedrock, sand, and gravel that can yield economically significant amounts of water

Aquifers:

A naturally occurring mineral fiber that has been identified as a class A carcinogen by the Environmental Protection Agency

Asbestos:

Intervention strategies used in prior or existing programs that have not gone through the critical research and evaluation studies and thus fall short of best practice criteria.

Best experience:

Airborne biological organisms or their particles or gases or other toxic materials that can produce illness

Biogenic pollutants:

Property where reuse is complicated by the presence of hazardous substances from prior use

Brownfield:

The maximum population of a particular species that a given habitat can support over a given period of time

Carrying capacity:

The federal law that provides the government with authority to address interstate air pollution.

Clean Air Act:

A formal alliance of organizations that come together to work for a common goal

Coalition

provides a system designed to address the needs of the whole child by effectively connecting health with education. This coordinated approach provides the framework for families, communities, and schools to work together to improve students' health and capacity to learn.

Coordinated School Health Program (CSHP)

the subjects comprising a course of study in a school or college

Curriculum

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) The federal agency primarily responsible for setting, maintaining, and enforcing environmental standards.

EPA:

Factors or conditions in the environment that increase the risk of human injury, disease, or death

Environmental hazards:

The study and management of environmental conditions that affect the health and well-being of humans

Environmental health:

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) The nation's official emergency response agency.

FEMA:

The occurrence of two or more cases of a similar illness resulting from the ingestion of food

Foodborne disease outbreak:

are general guidelines that explain what you want to achieve in your community

Goal:

A process that begins with those affected by the problem/concern.

Grass Roots:

Atmospheric gases, principally carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, ozone, methane, water vapor, and nitrous oxide, that are transparent to visible light but absorb infrared radiation

Greenhouse gases:

Water located under the surface of the ground.

Ground water:

A solid waste or combination of solid wastes that is dangerous to human health or the environment

Hazardous waste:

The promotion, maintenance, and utilization of safe and wholesome surroundings, organization of day-by-day experiences and planned learning procedures to influence favorable emotional, physical and social health

Healthy School Environment:

Focuses on immediate observable effects of a program

Impact evaluation:

Smog formed primarily by sulfur dioxide and suspended particles from the burning of coal, also known as gray smog

Industrial smog:

A naturally occurring mineral element found throughout the environment and used in large quantities for industrial products, including batteries, pipes, solder, paints, and pigments

Lead:

Tobacco smoke inhaled and exhaled by the smoker

Mainstream tobacco smoke:

Waste generated by individual households, businesses, and institutions located within municipalities

Municipal solid waste:

A natural hazard that results in substantial loss of life or property

Natural disaster:

All other susceptible organisms in the environment, for which a pesticide was not intended

Non-target organism:

are specific, measurable, and have a defined completion date

Objective:

Focuses on the end result of the program.

Outcome evaluation:

O3, an inorganic molecule considered to be a pollutant in the atmosphere because it harms human tissue, but considered beneficial in the stratosphere because it screens out UV radiation

Ozone:

The inhalation of environmental tobacco smoke by nonsmokers

Passive smoking:

Any organism-multicelled animal or plant, or microbe-that has an adverse effect on human interests

Pest:

The visible, photochemical smog also known as brown smog

Photochemical smog:

Pollution that can be traced to a single identifiable source.

Point source pollution

Air pollutants emanating directly from transportation, power and industrial plants, and refineries

Primary pollutants:

Those whom a program is intended to serve.

Priority population:

A process in which energy is emitted as particles or waves

Radiation:

The collecting, sorting, and processing of materials that would otherwise be considered waste into raw materials for manufacturing new products, and the subsequent use of those new products

Recycling:

The federal law that regulates the safety of public drinking water.

Safe Drinking Water Act:

an official responsible for public health or a person in favor of public health reform

Sanitarian:

The practice of establishing and maintaining healthy or hygienic conditions in the environment

Sanitation:

A professional at the district (or school) level responsible for management and coordination of all school health policies, activities, and resources.

School Health Coordinator:

Individuals from a school or school district and its community who work together to provide advice on aspects of the school health program.

School Health Council:

Health services provided by school health workers to appraise, protect, and promote the health of students and school personnel.

School Health Services:

Written statements that describe the nature and procedures of a school health program.

School Health policies:

Part of the curriculum that outlines what will be taught.

Scope=

Air pollutants formed when primary air pollutants react with sunlight and other atmospheric components to form new harmful compound

Secondary pollutants:

A watertight concrete or fiberglass tank that holds sewage; one of two main parts of a septic system

Septic tank:

Part of the curriculum that states in what order the content will be taught.

Sequence=

A term to describe a situation in which the air quality in a building produces generalized signs and symptoms of ill health in the building's occupants

Sick building syndrome:

The smoke that comes off the end of burning tobacco products

Side stream tobacco smoke:

A semiliquid mixture of solid waste that includes bacteria, viruses, organic matter, toxic metals, synthetic organic chemicals, and solid chemicals

Sludge:

The collection, transportation, and disposal of solid waste

Solid waste management:

The evaluation that determines the impact of a program on the priority population.

Summative evaluation:

Precipitation that does not infiltrate the ground or return to the atmosphere by evaporation; the water in streams, rivers, and lakes

Surface water:

The organism (or pest) for which a pesticide is applied

Target organism:

Condition that occurs when warm air traps cooler air at the surface of the earth

Thermal inversion:

An occurrence of an unexpectedly large number of cases of disease caused by an agent transmitted by insects or other arthropods

Vector borne disease outbreak:

A living organism, usually an arthropod, that can transmit a communicable disease agent to a susceptible host

Vector:

The aqueous mixture that remains after water has been used or contaminated by humans

Wastewater:

Any physical or chemical change in water that can harm living organisms or make the water unfit for other uses

Water pollution:

The process of improving the quality of wastewater (sewage) to the point that it can be released into a body of water without seriously disrupting the aquatic environment, causing health problems in humans, or causing nuisance conditions.

Water treatment:

Recommendations for interventions based on critical review of multiple research and evaluation studies that substantiate the efficacy of the intervention

best practice

Original intervention strategies that the planners create based on their knowledge and skills of good planning processes including the involvement of those in the priority population and the theories and models

best process

Synthetic chemicals developed and manufactured for the purpose of killing pests

pesticide:

Presentation of the intervention to just a few individuals, who are either from the intended priority population or from a very similar population

pilot test

A self-contained group of 'doers' that is not ongoing, but rather brought together due to a strong interest in an issue and for a specific purpose

task force

The area of land from which all of the water that is under it or drains from it goes into the same place and drains in one point; for example, the Mississippi River watershed drains and collects all the water from the land extending from east of the Rocky Mountains to the Appalachian Mountains and from the upper Midwest all the way south to the Gulf of Mexico

watershed