Environmental awareness

1. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
Learning Objectives:
a. Identify what is environmental health;
b. Discuss the different themes of environmental health;
c. Define the examples of environmental issues and;
d. Understand the importance of environmental health.
READING
Environmental Health is the science and practice of preventing human injury and illness and
promoting well-being by identifying and evaluating environmental sources and hazardous
agents and limiting exposures to hazardous physical, chemical, and biological agents in air,
water, soil, food and other environmental media or settings that may adversely affect human
health.
The Healthy People 2020 Environmental Health objectives focus on 6 themes, each of which
highlights an element of environmental health:
Outdoor air quality
Surface and ground water quality
Toxic substances and hazardous wastes
Homes and communities
Infrastructure and surveillance
Global environmental health
1. Outdoor Air Quality
 Poor air quality is linked to premature death, cancer, and long-term damage to
respiratory and cardiovascular systems. Decreasing air pollution is an important
step in creating a healthy environment.
2. Surface and Ground Water
 Quality concerns apply to both drinking water and recreational waters.
Contamination by infectious agents or chemicals can cause mild to severe illness.
Protecting water sources and minimizing exposure to contaminated water
sources are important parts of environmental health.
3. Toxic Substances and Hazardous Wastes
 The health effects of toxic substances and hazardous wastes are not yet fully
understood. Meanwhile, efforts to reduce exposure continue. Reducing

2. exposure to toxic substances and hazardous wastes is fundamental to
environmental health.
4. Homes and Communities
 People spend most of their time at home, work, or school. Some of these
environments may expose people to:
 Indoor air pollution
 Inadequate heating and sanitation
 Structural problems
 Electrical and fire hazards
 Lead-based paint hazards
5. Infrastructure and surveillance
 Preventing exposure to environmental hazards relies on many partners,
including state and local health departments. Personal surveillance system, and
education are important resources for investigating and responding to disease,
monitoring for hazards, and educating the public.
6. Global Environmental Health
 Water quality is an important global challenge. Diseases can be reduced by
improving water quality and sanitation and increasing access to adequate water
and sanitation facilities.
Here are some examples of Environmental Issues:
 Oil Drilling- this issue is one that causes a great deal of environmental destruction. Our
dependence on fossil fuel is a global addiction that affects every aspect of the world. Oil
spills and offshore drilling poison marine life, oil drilling (on land) suffocates the earth,
and the combustion of fossil fuels add to the increased atmospheric Carbon dioxide
which in turns causes the progression of global warming and ocean acidification.
 Deforestation- millions of acres of forest are cut down for industrial benefit, such as
large-scale farming, oil mining, and the production of paper goods. Deforestation causes
wildlife and biodiversity extinction because the loss of habitat threatens many species’
existence.
 Production of Plastic Goods- currently our society creates a great deal of waste and
much of that waste and much of that waste consists of plastic. This waste ends up all
over the globe in both land and water, a good example is the Great Pacific Garbage
Patch. Not only is plastic waste an issue, but the production of plastic is also dependent
on fossil fuel combustion.
Environmental Health is important because maintaining a healthy environment is central to
increasing quality of life and years of healthy life. Globally, 23% of all deaths and 26% of deaths
among children under age 5 are due to preventable environmental factors. Environmental
factors are diverse and far reaching. They include:

3.  Exposure to hazardous substances in the air, water, soil, and food
 Natural and technological disaster
 Climate change
 Occupational hazards
 The built environment
Poor environmental quality has its greatest impact on people whose health status is already at
risk. Therefore, environmental health must address the societal and environmental factors that
increase the likelihood of exposure and disease.

4. Activity 1
Name: ALBERTO, JOHN SMITH B. Date: __________________________
Year & Section: BPED-3A Score: _________________________
Direction: Put your answer to the blank provided before the number. Choose the best answer.
___YES_____1. YES OR NO: To protect customers in food establishments, all state food codes
follow FDA’s rules prohibiting food workers from working while sick.
____D____2. Which of these loud noises can cause hearing loss over time or from close
proximity?
A. Firecrackers
B. Sporting events
C. Motorcycles
D. All of the above
E. None of the above
_____NO___3. YES OR NO: When you lose power during storm, if you’re using a gas generator,
you must set it up outside.
____D____4. Which of the following statements is false?
A. No level of lead is safe. Exposure to even low levels of lead can affect a child’s growth
and development.
B. Lead-based paint and dust in the home environment continue to be the predominant
sources for lead exposure in children.
C. Lead exposure can affect nearly every system in the body.
D. Effects of lead exposure can be corrected
____D____5. What is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the United States?
A. Lead
B. Asbestos
C. Cleaning products
D. Radon
____C____6. Which of the following WOULD NOT be regarded as a measure to avoid the
impact of water pollution on our health?
A. Not dump garbage in rivers or around them.
B. Drink fruit juices instead of drinking so much water.
C. Never dispose of cooking fats and oils by pouring them down the sink.
D. Encourage your government to implement environment friendly policies.

5. ____C____7. It refers to all things, conditions, and influences that affect the growth, health,
and progress of living and non-living things.
A. Community
B. Community Health
C. Environment
D. Environmental Health
___D_____8. According to the World Health Organization, is a state of complete physical,
mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
A. Community
B. Environment
C. Environmental Health
D. Health
____D____9. It consists of prevention and control of disease, injury and disability associated
with interactions between people and their environment.
A. Community
B. Community Health
C. Environment
D. Environmental Health
____A____10. Environmental pollution is the release of _______ waste that causes detrimental
effects on the environment. Environmental pollution is often divided into pollution of _______
supplies, the ________ and the _______.
A. Chemical / water / atmosphere / soil
B. Chemical / sea / air / garbage
C. Agents / water / atmosphere / soil
D. None of the above
___B_____11. Indoor environmental pollution _______.
A. Is not as dangerous as outdoor
B. Can be worse than outdoor pollution
C. Can be 100% avoided with some simple measures
D. All of the above
_____D___12. The environmental burden of disease _______.
A. Quantifies the amount of disability and death caused by environmental risks.
B. Tries to prevent early deaths due to environmental risks.
C. Quantifies the amount of deaths caused by environmental risks.
D. None of these

6. ____C____13. Who of the following people has more possibilities of being struck by an
environmental disease, if we take into account exposure to damaging agents?
A. Your teacher, who doesn’t like sunbathing at all.
B. Your great grandfather, who was a pirate for 40 years.
C. Your cousin, who has been a farmer for years and uses lots of pesticides.
D. Your aunt, who is a nurse and has OT to manage an x-ray machine from time to time.
____D____14. How can we know to what extent environmental air pollution harms population
health?
A. Calculating the environmental burden of disease.
B. It is impossible to know, we can only imagine because it cannot be quantified.
C. By counting how many people die each year in a city due to diseases caused by air
pollution.
D. By calculating the ratio of factories and inhabitants in an area.
___C_____15. Which sentence is NOT true?
A. There isn’t much I can do as individual to improve the level of environmental pollution.
B. Outdoor pollution is always worse that indoor pollution.
C. All of the above
D. None of these

7. Activity 2
Name: ALBERTO, JOHN SMITH B. Date: __________________________
Year & Section: BPED-3A Score: _________________________
Instructions: Make a two slogan about deforestation and climate change. Take a photo of your
slogan and put into the box provided.
RUBRIC FOR SLOGAN MAKING
CRAFTMANSHIP
5
The slogan is
exceptionally
attractive in
terms of
neatness. Well-
constructed and
not messy
4
The slogan is
attractive in
terms of
neatness. Good
construction and
not very messy
3
The slogan is
acceptably
attractive
though it may
be a bit messy
1
The slogan is
distractingly
messy
CREATIVITY
Slogan is
exceptionally
creative. Lot of
thought and
effort! As used
to make the
banner
Slogan is
creative and a
good amount of
thought! As put
into decorating
it
Slogan is
creative and
some thought!
As put into
decorating it
The slogan does
not reflect any
degree of
creativity
ORIGINALLY
Exceptional use
of new ideas
and originality
to create slogan
Good use of new
ideas and
originality to
create slogan
Average use of
your ideas and
originality to
create slogan
No use of new
ideas and
originality to
create slogan

8. 1. DEFORESTATION
2. CLIMATE CHANGE
“DEFORESTATION will
lead us to
DEVASTATION”.
“MINDSET change
NOT
CLIMATE change”

9. Activity 3
Name: ALBERTO, JOHN SMITH B. Date: __________________________
Year & Section: BPED-3A Score: _________________________
Directions: Read the sentence and fix the jumbled letters. Put your answer to the blank before
the number.
____SURFACE AND GROUND WATER______1. Contamination by infectious agents or chemicals
can cause mild to severe illness.
R F U E A C S N A D N O D G R U T W E R A
________OUTDOOR AIR QUALITY___2. Decreasing air pollution is an important step in creating
a healthy environment.
T O D O U R O R A I L Y Q A U I T
_______HOMES AND COMMUNITIES____3. People spend most of their time at home, work, or
school.
O M E H S D N A M M U O C I N I E T S
_______GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH____4. Water quality is an important global
challenge.
L A B O L G L A T N E M N O R I V N E A H E H T L
_____DEFORESTATION______5. Causes wildlife and biodiversity extinction because the loss of
habitat threatens many species’ existence.
O E D F E S R R A T T N O I
_____OIL DRILLING______6. This issue is one that causes a great deal of environmental
destruction.
L O I L L N I G D I R
___PRODUCTION OF PLASTIC GOODS________7. This waste ends up all over the globe in both
land and water, a good example is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

10. U O R P C D O N I T F O S L C A T P I O O S D G
_____ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH______8. Is the science and practice of preventing human
injury and illness and promoting well-being by identifying and evaluating environmental
sources.
I V N E N M O R N T E L A H H A E T L
_____INFRASTRUCTURE AND SURVEILLANCE_______9. Preventing exposure to environmental
hazards relies on many partners, including state and local health departments.
E R U C T R U S A T R F I N D A N E E L L I U R S V A C N
_____AIR POLLUTION_______10. Is the presence of substance in the atmosphere that are
harmful to the health of humans and other living beings.
R A I L U L T O N P I O
_____CLIMATE CHAGE_______11. It includes both the global warming driven by human
emissions of greenhouse gases, and the resulting large-scale shifts weather patterns.
L I M E A T C A G N E H C
______OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS______12. Can encompass many types of hazards, including
chemical hazards, biological hazards, psychosocial hazards, and physical hazards.
C C T N I O O U P A L A A D R S A H Z
_______STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS_____13. Problem which cause the uneven functioning of the
economy.
R S U T C U T A L R R O B L P M S E
_______TOXIC WASTE_____14. Any unwanted material in all forms that can cause harm.
Disposing of such waste is a major public health issue.
C O I T X E W A T S
_____HAZARDOUS WASTE_______15. Is a waste that has substantial or potential threats to
public health or the environment.

11. U O H S Z A A D R S W E A T
References:
https://www.healtypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/environmental-health
https://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/why-global-environmental-health-important