Public Health Final Chapter 17-25

The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act requires what type of wastes to be accounted for "from cradle to grave" and there are criminal penalties for those who violate the laws?

-Municipal wastes -Hazardous Wastes

__________ provides identification and cleanup of hazardous waste sites.

-Superfund -CERCLA

Each year between 1991 and 2010, the CDC and the EPA recorded an average of how many outbreaks associated with contaminated drinking water?

16

Americans dispose of how much municipal solid waste each year?

250 million tons

The leading cause of water pollution in the United States is _________.

Agriculture

High ______________ levels are found in the blood of more than one-third of adult pedestrians killed by motor vehicles.

Alcohol

_____ ______ _____ _____ is the most commonly diagnosed behavior disorder of childhood.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

The "Three E's" of injury prevention—education, enforcement, and engineering—were first applied in which industry?

Auto

The general approach to water treatment is directed primarily against__________________ disease, the most common and historically devastating type of waterborne disease.

Bacterial

The Clean Air Act and its amendments require monitoring and regulation of six common air pollutants called______ _________ ________.

Criteria Air Pollutants

Because of budgetary constraints, how often can the FDA inspect food-processing facilities under its jurisdiction?

Every 10 years

True or False? A number of studies, including the study of six cities, suggest that the largest particles are the most dangerous because they can invade the body's natural defenses and penetrate deeply into the lungs, becoming a chronic source of irritation.

False

True or False? Males with fewer than 12 years of education are nearly twice as likely to be overweight than male college graduates.

False

True or False? Violence is traditionally thought of as a public health issue rather than a criminal justice issue.

False

Regulation of the fish industry, which falls mainly under the jurisdiction of the _________________, is especially difficult because most fish are caught in the wild by independent fishermen in relatively small boats.

Food and Drug Administration

________ factors are important in some mental disorders, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Genetic

What virus is frequently transmitted by food handlers who are careless about hygiene?

Hepatitis A Virus

Fifty-three percent of municipal solid wastes as well as wastes from other sources are disposed of in ___________.

Landfills

Over the past three decades, evidence has accumulated that even low levels of _______________ can slow a child's development and cause learning and behavior problems.

Lead

Which of the following is highly toxic to the developing nervous system and is a common contaminant in the American inner city, both from deteriorating paint and old plumbing?

Lead

Which of the following was the first category of injuries to be analyzed and subjected to systematic prevention efforts?

Motor vehicle injuries

____________________ solid wastes include durable goods, nondurable goods, containers and packaging, food scraps, yard trimmings, and miscellaneous inorganic wastes.

Municipal

Which is the only category in which the prevalence among the older cohort is comparable to the younger groups?

Nicotine dependence

Which of the following are most commonly involved in unintentional deaths?

Opioid pain medications

_______ __________ ________ increases the risk of premature birth and certain birth defects, such as cleft lip and cleft palate.

Smoking during pregnancy

Which area of the United States generally has the highest prevalence of depression, serious psychological distress, and mean number of mentally unhealthy days?

Southeastern

____________________ is a state that occurs when people perceive that demands exceed their ability to cope.

Stress

Alcohol is a ___________________, and fetal alcohol syndrome is a risk for children of mothers who are problem drinkers.

Teratogen

True or False? Apparently for biological reasons, teenage mothers are more likely to deliver premature infants than older women of the same socioeconomic status.

True

True or False? Archaeological evidence shows that the earliest cities were designed with consideration for the health of their inhabitants.

True

True or False? Even if the U.S. borders are sealed, human population growth threatens to change the environment of the entire globe, posing health threats that no one could escape.

True

True or False? Even though many people want to be thinner, getting people to lose weight seems to be even more difficult than getting them to quit smoking.

True

True or False? In addition to the people being killed by injuries, there are almost as many survivors left with permanent disabilities, a major economic and emotional drain on families and on society in general.

True

True or False? Infants are more likely to develop respiratory infections or die of SIDS when family members smoke in the home.

True

True or False? It has been shown that the major portion of PCBs in the Great Lake comes from air pollution.

True

True or False? Neurotoxins may be even more insidious than carcinogens because the damage they do may mimic common aspects of aging.

True

True or False? Since only the most serious cases of foodborne diseases are reported, the extent of the problem is unclear.

True

True or False? The National Health Interview Survey conducts in-person interviews with carefully selected representative households to identify serious psychological distress in the past 30 days.

True

True or False? The generally lower socioeconomic status of African Americans in the United States accounts in large part for their higher infant mortality rate.

True

True or False? While Americans support most measures to ensure cleaner air, they consistently resist efforts to move them out of their private automobiles.

True

President Obama signed an executive order to strengthen access to mental health care, including suicide prevention efforts, for which group of people?

Veterans