Section: Module 4: Lesson 1: Risk Assessment | Environmental Health | NextGenU.org
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Learning Objectives:
- Evaluate exposure assessment strategies used in environmental and occupational health.
- Understand assessment tools and methods to identify risk factors that adversely affect human health.
- Analyze genetic, physiologic, and psychosocial factors that influence the risk of exposure and the susceptibility to adverse health outcomes following exposure to environmental hazards.
- Analyze the concepts of hazard identification, exposure assessment, and dose-response assessment and their role in risk assessment and management.
- Create a risk assessment plan for a given community.
- Understand the concept of environmental insult and what is a testable model of environmental insult.
- Create a testable model of environmental insult related to an environmental risk identified in their communities.
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Watch the entire video(2 min 50 sec).
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Read the entire page, then click on each of the five tabs and read its content(Planning, Hazard Identification, Dose-Response, Exposure Assessment, and Risk characterization).
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Read the content under the heading "Exposure and Dose Rates."
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Click on "Direct Measurement," "Indirect estimation," and "Exposure reconstruction" and read the content under the heading "Overview" on each of them.
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Read the content under the heading "2.3.2. Overview of Exposure Assessment" and "2.3.3. Approaches for Exposure Assessment" on pages 12-16.
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Read from the end of the table on page 3 to the title "2.2. Initiating Factors Prompting CRAs in the Workplace" on page 5.
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Read the definition of "Cumulative exposure." in Table 1.
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Read the entire article.
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Read the content under the heading "2. General framework of epidemiological studies on pesticides" and the subheading "2.1 Study Design" to understand the different epidemiological designs' key features.
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Read the entire document.
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Read from the beginning of the article to the heading "Question 1. Do environmental factors matter to health?." Then read the content under the heading "Conclusions."
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Read the definition of Environmental Justice.
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Read the content under the heading "Equity & Environmental Justice."
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Read the content under the headings "Role of Genetics in the Variability of Response to Occupational exposures" and "The Use of Genetic Information in Quantitative Risk Assessment."
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Read the content of Table 1.
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Read the content from the heading "Evidence summary: Current knowledge on social inequalities and environmental risk "on page 4 to the heading "Conclusions" on page 13.
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Read the content under the heading "Executive Summary" on page 8-10.
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Read the entire page, then click on the links "Steps needed to manage risk," "Risk assessment template and examples," and "More detail on managing risk" and read its content.
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Read the content under the heading "1.3.3 Environmental intervention models."
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Read the content under the headings "Abstract," "Background," and "Environmental Insults in ALS."
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Quiz: Module 4: Lesson 1:
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TO PASS THIS QUIZ, YOU MUST OBTAIN A SCORE OF 80%
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Read the content under the heading "Abstract," "Introduction," and "Conclusion and Policy Recommendations."
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For advanced audiences, we recommend the completion of this mentored activity require you to connect with a mentor holding a Master of Public Health(MPH) or equivalent degree to evaluate your work.
As we want to ensure equitable access to the courses and understand the limitations of finding mentors in some regions, mentored activities are not required to take the final exam or get the certificate.In this activity, students will engage in the development of a risk assessment for a community or population and make recommendations to address the identified risks.Step 1: Review this Guide For Conducting A Community Risk Assessment as a reference for conducting a risk assessment.
Step 2: Choose a community or population you are related to in order to develop a risk assessment and write an 800-1000 word risk assessment. Include the following:
The 3 main steps and all sub-steps.
Recommendations to address the identified risks.
References to your work in APA format, please review this resource from the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library on how to use APA Citation Style (references are excluded from word counts).
Step 3: Compile your assignment in a document. Be sure to include all the requirements detailed in Step 2. Submit your assignment and wait for your mentor's feedback.