EnTOx Orientation
Cards (80)
- A situation that may cause loss of life, injury or other health impacts, property damage, social and economic disruption or environmental degradation.
- An event that completely disrupts the normal life pattern of victims. In brief, a disaster is more catastrophic in nature.
- The likelihood that a harmful consequence may occur.
- A hazard can lead to a disaster.
- The degree to which the element at risk are likely to experience hazard events of different magnitude.
- Is the combination of all strengths and resources available within the community, society or organization that can reduce the level of risk or effects of a disaster.
- The characteristics and circumstances of a community that make it susceptible to the damaging effects of a hazard.
- A systematic approach to identifying, assessing and reducing the risks of disaster.
- strengthening the Philippine disaster management system
- The restoring or improving of basic services and functions.
- outright avoidance of the adverse affects of hazards / disasters.
- knowledge and capacities to effectively anticipate, respond to and recover from impacts of likely hazard (personal and institutional level).
- Immediate provision of emergency services to save lives, meet needs.
- The study of harmful effects of chemicals on living things.
- Something that can harm the health of humans or the environment.
- The likelihood that a harmful consequence may occur.
- The total amount of a chemical that comes into direct contact with the body.
- Measure of how dangerous a chemical is.
- Measure of how dangerous a chemical is.
- Toxic substances produced or by-product of human activities.
- A state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
- The total amount of the hazard that actually enters the body relative to the individual’s body weight.
- An abnormal change in the body’s condition that impairs important physical or psychological functions.
- Oldest scientific discipline
- FATHER OF TOXICOLOGY
- Toxicology as a distinct scientific discipline was established by a Spanish physician.
- He developed numerous chemical assays for detecting the presence of poisons in the human body, thus providing an early foundation for forensic toxicology.
- It was initially used to combat malaria, typhus, and the other insect-borne human diseases among both military and civilian populations.
- was an American marine biologist and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and considered the mother of environmental toxicology.
- Integration of biology and other fields of study to understand how pollutants move through the environment and affect ecological and human health.
- Any change in the natural quality of the environment brought about by chemical, physical and biological.
- a substance or effect which adversely alters the environment by changing the growth rate of species, interferes with health, comfort, amenities or property values of the people.
- are organic pollutants that are still present in our environment today despite being banned in many countries such as the United States and Canada.
- These metals can include mercury, lead, aluminum and cadmium. It has been shown that fish exposed to higher cadmium levels grow at a slower rate than fish exposed to lower levels or none.
- a major source of environmental toxicity. These chemically synthesized agents have been known to persist in the environment long after their administration.
- target herbal pests such as weeds and other unwanted plants that reduce crop production.
- used to eliminate agricultural pests that attack various fruits and crops.
- an organochlorine insecticide that has been banned due to its adverse effects on both humans and wildlife. DDT was widely used by farmers in order to kill agricultural pests.
- poorly degradable and relatively mobile in air & water
- bioaccumulate in body fat