Understanding Environmental Health in Totality
- Describe three waterborne diseases and suggest methods for their prevention.
- Provide one example of a toxic chemical that may enter the public water supply? Describe some of the health effects that are attributed to toxic chemicals present in drinking water.
- What health hazards are associated with uncontrolled and older waste sites in the United States? Describe the processes through which hazardous solid wastes can affect human beings.
- Compare and contrast the current methods for treating sewage from those that were used in the Middle Ages? Historically speaking, what factors spurred the development of today’s sanitary sewage systems?
- Describe the stages for processing sewage. At what stage of processing is it permissible in the United States to dispose of wastewater from sewage into waterways?
- What health-related considerations relate to the use of recycled water? What level of processing is required for wastewater to be recycled? Describe some of the uses of recycled water.
- Even though workers in professional occupations usually are not exposed directly to hazardous agents, they are prone to occupationally associated illnesses. What types of hazards and associated illnesses predominate in professional occupations? What interventions would you propose to mitigate these hazards?
Cholera is one of the leading fatal yet treatable waterborne disease that causes dehydration and diarrhea (Craun, 2018). Cholera illness causes intestinal infections that are quite harmful. However, cholera symptoms vary greatly in different individuals ranging from mild to severe illness condition. Cholera stems from Vibrio cholera bacteria. It originates from the consumption of unsafe water contaminated by human wastes. Constant diarrhea caused by cholera results to sunken eyes, wrinkled skin, and dehydration. Administering lots of fluids, antibiotics, and IV fluids are some of the ultimate treatment for contagious cholera. Antibiotics assists in reducing the duration of illness and fluid requirements. IV fluids on the other side are administered to reduce dehydration. Cholera is an infectious diseases that may lead to loss of lives easily especially when patients are not given lots of drinks.
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