Culminating Lab v2

my culminating lab, I wanted to look at overall addressing hazards,

which was the main theme that I got from

this class in the purpose of environmental health sciences.

Um such a limit our exposure and risk from hazards.

There are many different points of interventions

um and types of interventions as well as other

external factors that determine which interventions we should choose.

So looking at the points of interventions early on in the course,

we looked at really these five points in the original environmental health

model, we have the source hazards or exposure,

media the recipient exposure route and then ultimately

the health effect that we're trying to avoid.

The most interesting thing I found was when

we were discussing the one health approach,

we learned that recipients can include humans,

animals and plants and they're all

differently affected based on various characteristics.

Yeah.

In addition there are different types of interventions

that we learned about definitely new technologies and

engineering or a big focus of this class

and really what's needed in order to implement

um a lot of um

new practices,

also additional resources could just include staff that we need um

to have those regular ongoing investment in basic public health services,

um then definitely treatments to address, you know,

the health effects if if we do get to a disease state.

And then what I found really interesting was the policy change concepts,

seeing how successful some of these

have been in the past and really how that can be have

a large impact on a large scale if implemented and enforced correctly.

And then lastly, um

based on kind of what we choose in the

point of intervention or the type of intervention.

There's also these other factors that we have to consider, um,

with a system thinking approach to think, big picture

and what we decide ultimately depends on what's available, the cost,

how much it will really impact and what the equity will look like.

And then, of course, the political will required.

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