Week 2: Health and the Environment

Ultimate means Sustains us Includes solar energy, biosphere, earth materials, biogeochemical cycles

What is needed to support individual life

Measure of all financial transactions Increases when there is oil spill: insurance pay out, increase in jobs

How animal populations are doing Biodiversity is lost 1000x faster than natural Biodiversity and biocapacity are not shared equally among nations Distance between production and consumption prevent negative feedback from over-exloited ecosystems

A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

Science/art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals

Branch of public health that protects against the effects of environmental hazards and ecological balances

Cholera

Toxicologist Wrote silent spring

Traditional environmental pollutants

Break environmental determinants Diet, inactivity, smoking