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| causative factor invading a susceptible host through an environment favorable to produce disease, such as a biological or chemical agent |
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| all of those factors internal and external to the client that constitute the context in which the client lives and that influence and are influenced by host and agent0host interactions; the sum of all external conditions affecting the life, development, and survival of an organism |
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| a living human or animal organism in which an infectious agent can exist under natural conditions |
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| diffuse pollution source (without a single point of origin or not introduced into a receiving stream from a specific outlet) the pollutants may be carried off the land by storm water. Ex: traffic, fertilizer or pesticide run-off, and animal wastes |
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| stationary location or fixed facility from which pollutants are discharged; any single identifiable source of pollution (pipe, ditch, ship, ore pit, factory, smoke stack) |
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| the right of citizens to have direct access to information about issues of environmental concern such as information on the quality of drinking water, the use of food additives, and chemical use in the workplace and community |
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| qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the risk posed to human health and/or use of specific pollutants |
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| the exchange of information about health or environmental risks amoung, for example, risk assessors and managers, the general public, news media, and interest groups |
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| the basic science that studies the health effects associated with chemical exposures |
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| consumer confidence report |
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| a report that began in 1996 when congress amended the Safe Drinking Water Act to add provision that required all community water systems to deliver a brief annual water quality report to their customers. The CCR includes information on the water source, the levels of any detected contaminates, and compliance with drinking water rules, plus some education material. The rationale for these reports is that consumers have a right to know what is in their drinking water. The reports help consumers make informed choices that affect their health |
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| a form of epidemiology that investigates causes and associations between factors or events and health |
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| a measure of existing disease in population at a given time |
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| a form of epidemiology that escribes a disease according to dimensions of person, place, and time |
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| the study of the distribution and factors that determine health-related states or events in a population and the use of this information to control health problems |
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| the proportion of the population at risk who experience the event over some period of time |
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| the frequency or rate of new cases of an outcome in a population; it provides and estimate of the risk of disease in that population over the period of observation |
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| a type of intervention that seeks to promote health and prevent disease form the beginning |
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| an intervention that seeks to detect disease early in its progression (early pathogenesis) before clinical signs and symptoms become apparent in order to make an early diagnosis and begin tx |
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| intervention that begins once the disease is obvious; the aim is to interrupt the course of the disease, reduce the amount of disability that might occur, and begin rehabilitation |
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| factors that influence the risk for or distribution of health outcomes |
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