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Education Workshop
Find out More About Hidden Environmental Contaminants
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Creating A Healthy Environment For You And Your Family
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Developed by
Exposure Pathways Education ProjectSharon MacKenzie Public Health Nurse
Public Health ServicesA Shared Service of
Cape Breton District Health Authority (CBDHA)
& Guysborough Antigonish Strait Health Authority
(GASHA)
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IcebreakerGetting To Know You!
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Public Health ServicesWho Are We?
Shared ServiceCape Breton District Health Authority
Guysborough Antigonish Strait Health Authority
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Who Are We?Our Team consists of an interdisciplinary
group of professionals working at the community, district, provincial, and national levels of the health care system.
Public Health Nurses Licensed Practical
Nurses Dental Hygienists Health Educators Nutritionists
Support Staff Managers Medical Officer of
Health Tobacco Reduction
Coordinators
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What We Do ?Public Health Services Focuses
on the following six (6) functions: Assess the Health
of PopulationsHealth
SurveillancePopulation Health Advocacy
Health PromotionDisease and
Injury PreventionHealth Protection
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Who Are We ?
Public Health Services, following a “Population Health Approach” works in partnership with communities, families andindividuals to prevent illness, protect and promote health and achieve well being
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Who Are We?We do so by advocating for healthy
public policy and encouraging action around the “determinants of health” ( Source: Health Canada)
Income and Social Status
Social Support Networks
Education Employment/Working
Conditions Social Environments Physical
Environments
Personal Health Practices and Coping Skills
Healthy child development
Biology and Genetics Health services Gender Culture
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Overall Purpose Of Today’s Workshop:
To increase participants understanding of
1.Environmental Contaminants2.Pathways of Exposure3.Ways to reduce or avoid Exposure
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By the End of Today’s Workshop, Participants will
1.Understand the properties of 5 environmental contaminants
2.Understand how contaminants travel from a source,through the environment into people (Exposure Pathways)
3.Identify ways to help reduce/avoid exposure to contaminants
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To help understand the risk(s) posed by environmental
contaminants, we will first explore these terms
and what they mean to people
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Activity 1Explore what these words mean to the group
EnvironmentalContaminants
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Am I At Risk?
Are my Children At Risk?
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Activity 2Purpose of the activity is to explore how you Rate your Risk of exposure to several environmental contaminants.
Not a test, nobody else will see it.
Complete Side A only
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Definition Of RiskIn relation to environmental contaminants, risk can be defined as:the likelihood that an adverse health effect will occur in a person (group) that is exposed to a particular level of a harmful substanceSource:Health Canada: Health and the Environment Handbook
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Definition of RiskRisk is a measure of:
Harm that can result from exposure to a contaminant
The likelihood that harm will occur
Source:Health Canada:Shared Responsibilities, Shared Vision, Reviewing the federal health protection legislation, 1998
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Environmental Contaminant
A Substance(s) that has the potential to be harmful.
Contaminants can get into our food, water, air or soil.
Pollutants
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ContaminantsContaminants can exist:
naturally (forest fires, volcanoes, natural geology)
orcreated by: human activities (industry,
garbage, chemical spills)
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What puts us at risk of becoming exposed to an
environmental contaminant?
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Exposure PathwayLink between
Source and Receptor
A) Source
B) PathwayC) Receptor
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Exposure Pathway
Exposure- exposure means you do not have shelter or protection.
any contact between a substance and an individual
Exposure Pathway-the pathway a contaminant may take to reach humans or other living things (Link)
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An Exposure Pathway Consists of 5 Elements
Source
TransportPoint ofExposure
Route ofExposure
ReceptorPopulation
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Source
Where the harmful substance is coming from:
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Transport MediaWhat things the harmful substance can get into and how it moves
Air
Water
Food
Soil
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Point Of ExposureA place where contact with thecontaminant could happen:
HomeWorkplace
School
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Exposure RouteHow the harmful substance getsinto or contacts your body:
1. Breathe/inhale2. Swallow/ingest3. Skin contact/touch
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Receptor PopulationThe people that could come incontact with the harmful substance:children, families, workers:
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What environmental contaminants are we at risk if being exposed to in our
daily lives ?
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Activity 3Purpose:To identify the environmental contaminant on the Activity 3 WorksheetTo become familiar with theinformation in the brochures
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Arsenic
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Coal Ash
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Lead
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PCBs
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PAHs
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Activity 4
Rate Your RiskSide B
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Questions ?
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Evaluation Forms
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Thank You