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Environmental Impacts on Health

 

Overview

Environmental factors influence the health of everyone.  According to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), “climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century. Health is and will be affected by the changing climate through direct impacts (heat waves, droughts, heavy storms, and sea-level rise), and indirect impacts (vector-borne and airways diseases, food and water insecurity, undernutrition, and forced displacements).”  You have completed assessing the physical environment characteristics of your community and now we’re going to study how the environment affects our health.  A major role of the public health nurse is to protect the health of populations, so it is reasonable to expect that the public health nurse be concerned about environmental health.  However, it is important for you to realize that environmental health is a priority for all nurses – not just those working in community settings.  In fact, The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) has included the impact of climate change as an essential in nursing education (AACN, 3.6b) and Standard 16 of the American Nurse’s Association’s (ANA) Scope and Standards of Practice addresses environmental health as a very important competency.  Their booklet is attached here:  https://www.nursingworld.org/~4afaf8/globalassets/practiceandpolicy/work-environment/health–safety/principles-of-environmental-health-online_final.pdf

In addition, environmental quality has been identified as one of the 12 leading health indicators by the Healthy People 2030 initiative.  

 

 

 

Learning Objectives 

Explain how the environment influences human health and disease.
Describe legislative and regulatory policies that have influences the effect of the environment on health and disease patterns
Identify industry leaders in data collection of environmental impacts and apply these evidenced-based resources in practice.
Analyze the impact of climate change on environmental and population health.
Provide examples of evidenced-based practice in the community
 

Terms and Definitions to Know 

Toxicology: the basic science that studies the health effects associated with chemical exposures
Epidemiological triangle: the relationship among an agent, a host, and their environment

Assignment Instructions:  

Read:
Chapter 8 – Environmental Health
Read Chapter 9 – Evidenced-based Practice
Read the article: Health Risks due to Climate Change: Inequity in Causes and Consequences. https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.01125
Watch:
What is environmental health? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T97O1VWhglE (2:37 mins)
Healthy Planet, Healthy People | Courtney Howard | TEDxMontrealWomen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgIYaklWOK4  (16 mins)
Complete the following table using the above resources and the resources listed within the document.

 

Environmental health involves efforts to prevent or control environmental factors that can cause disease, injury, and disability.  Nurses need to be aware of potential environmental health hazards in their community.   Not only does environmental health include the air, water, and land in which we live, but also our homes and places of work.  Name at least 3 environmental hazards to your health that you can think of in each category.

 

Air

Water

Land

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Watch Contaminated Without Consent:  http://youtu.be/jNz8yASPXoI (16 mins) What are your thoughts?

 

 

 

 

Who is most at risk? Explain.

 

 

Here is a link to the Exposure History Form from The Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry.  https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/csem/exphistory/docs/CSEMExposHist-26-29.pdf

Download the pdf and teleconference with an adult of your choice to complete the form.  Identify any area of concern and write a short summaryhere.  Explain your concerns.

 

Pick one of the Climate Effects on the following CDC website and summarize how this affects public health.  https://www.cdc.gov/climateandhealth/effects/default.htm#:~:text=The%20health%20effects%20of%20these,and%20threats%20to%20mental%20health.

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Click on one of the links under resources for that same climate effect and summarize the information you found there.

 

 

Click on Regional Health Effects for Texas (Southern Great Plains).  Pick one of the Health Impacts and discuss including what population this would affect.

 

 

Click on Texas from this link and see what interventions you might do to lessen the impact of your chosen climate impact (above) https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/impacts/map-index.html  List interventions here:

 

Go to the NOAA website and look at the 3 key messages for Texas.  Complete the table below.  https://statesummaries.ncics.org/chapter/tx/

 

Key Messages

Population Affected

Possible Evidenced-based interventions (Cite your sources) 

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Opinion: Watch the following TedEx video. Healthy Planet, Healthy People | Courtney Howard | TEDx Montreal Women https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgIYaklWOK4  (16 mins)

 

What is “Climatary Health”?  (11:20)

 

For women – if we provide education and access to family planning…what three things does this do? 

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What is preventing us from doing this?

 

 

What is your personal opinion after watching this?

 

 

 

 

After learning about these impacts of climate change, (and Texas being the big state that it is), list climate change impacts that directly affect your community:

 

 

 

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