What are the treatment options for asthma? How can the Environmental Protection Agency help with asthma? As a community health leader, discuss recommendations and how we can address the issue of air pollution.
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways. The patient suffers from difficulty in breathing (dyspnea) due to the bronchoconstriction and accumulation of mucus (causes wheezing), chronic dry cough, tightness in the chest and bronchospasm.
The drugs beclomethasone (corticosteroid) and albuterol (beta2 adrenergic receptor agonist) are used in the treatment of asthma. They act as anti-inflammatory agents and bronchodilators respectively. Beclomethasone cause inhibition of inflammatory response, an albuterol cause bronchial smooth muscle relaxation. Both these symptoms are needed to relieve the signs of asthma.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) classified some of the germicidal chemicals as “sterilants-disinfectants” based on their chemical properties. The EPA can identify the indoor and outdoor pollutants triggering asthma and control their levels in the environment.
What are the treatment options for asthma? How can the Environmental Protection Agency help with asthma?...
The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sets limits on healthful levels of air pollutants. The maximum level that the EPA considers safe for lead air pollution is 1.5 μg/m3. If your lungs were filled with air containing this level of lead, how many lead atoms would be in your lungs? (Assume a total lung volume of 5.40 L .)
Community Action Against Asthma This program involved a household intervention and an environmental exposure assessment study. The primary stakeholders for this program were the health division, a community coalition, primary healthcare providers, parents, and children/adolescents. The household intervention utilized a community health worker model to help caregivers reduce their child’s asthma triggers and manage their asthma. The intervention was effective in reducing the proportion of children and adolescents (ages 7–18 years) who required unscheduled medical visits and used asthma controller...
Suppose the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announces it will require new light trucks and sport utility vehicles (SUVs) to install pollution control devices that will increase their cost. How will the supply and demand curves (if either) for cars be effected? (Assume cars and SUVs are considered different goods.) What will happen to the equilibrium price and quantity of cars?
Describe one standard treatment for an asthma attack. What can help prevent an asthma attack?
Question #3 –Water Safety (25 points) You are working for the Environmental Protection Agency in their California Regional Office of Water Quality. You have been getting calls from several members of a community in Southern California that are concerned about health problems in their community that they think are related to contaminants in their drinking water. Since they are on a public water system, they would like for you to come to their community and talk about who is responsible...
U.S. environmental protection agency (epa) risk Management plan (rMp) audit program There are several “exposures” that your facility must be prepared to deal with for the protection of your employees, such as having eyewash stations in case of an accidental splash into the eyes of a pathogen, infectious materials, or a chemical. Imagine that an accidental splash of bleach hit an employee’s eyes. Create the documentation as required by the following two items that might be reviewed in an EPA...
1. Consider the market for new cars. e. Suppose the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announces it will require new light trucks and sport utility vehicles (SUVs) to install pollution control devices that will increase their cost. How will the supply and demand curves (if either) for cars be affected? (Assume cars and SUVs are considered different goods.) What will happen to the equilibrium price and quantity of cars? f. Consider the difference between the short run of a few days...
23. Suppose the Environmental Protection Agency (LRT mental Protection Agency (EPA) wants to mandate that all methane emissions must be reduced to zero in order to alleviate global warming in the United States. Which of the following describes why most economists would disagree with this policy a. The environment is not worth protecting b. Reducing methane emissions is desirable, but whatever level of pollution firms decide to emit privately is already efficient c. The opportunity cost of zero pollution is...
Health, Wellness, and Disease Environmental illness: Real or Imagined? am Our natural environment can be the source of a number of acute ill- nesses and long-term or chronic diseases. Plants, insects, and even the sun cause danger to human beings. When people make changes to the environment-either the micro environment in which an individual lives or works or the macro environment in which we all live and work, there is a risk of potential illness and disease. Many of the...
Introduction to environmental health class Instructions Environmental Hazards Increase in Environment Related Health Hazards in Recent Years The study of environmental health is crucial to one's understanding of the hazards and potential adverse effects posed by environmental agents and the extent to which environmental factors play a role in human disease. This foundation is essential for being an effective advocate for preventing environmentally caused diseases and for more advanced study of environmental health issues. Using the South University Online Library...