Exam 23: Solid and Hazardous Wastes
Exam 1: Public Health: Science, Politics, and Prevention41 Questions
Exam 2: Why Is Public Health Controversial37 Questions
Exam 3: Powers and Responsibilities of Government42 Questions
Exam 4: Epidemiology42 Questions
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Exam 6: Problems and Limits of Epidemiology Problems With Studying Humans42 Questions
Exam 7: Statistics: Making Sense of Uncertainty the Uncertainty of Science42 Questions
Exam 8: The Role of Data in Public Health Vital Statistics40 Questions
Exam 9: The Conquest of Infectious Diseases Infectious Agents41 Questions
Exam 10: The Resurgence of Infectious Diseases42 Questions
Exam 11: The Biomedical Basis of Chronic Diseases42 Questions
Exam 12: Genetic Diseases and Other Inborn Errors42 Questions
Exam 14: How Psychosocial Factors Affect Health Behavior41 Questions
Exam 14: How Psychosocial Factors Affect Health Behavior42 Questions
Exam 15: Public Health Enemy Number One42 Questions
Exam 16: Public Health Enemy Number Twoand Growing40 Questions
Exam 17: Injuries Are Not Accidents42 Questions
Exam 18: Maternal and Child Health As a Social Problem Maternal and Infant Mortality42 Questions
Exam 19: Mental Health42 Questions
Exam 20: A Clean Environment42 Questions
Exam 21: Clean Air42 Questions
Exam 22: Clean Water33 Questions
Exam 23: Solid and Hazardous Wastes42 Questions
Exam 24: Safe Food and Drugs: An On-going Regulatory42 Questions
Exam 25: Population: The Ultimate Environmental Health37 Questions
Exam 26: Is the Medical Care System a Public Health Issue42 Questions
Exam 27: Why the US Medical System Needs Reform Problems With Access42 Questions
Exam 28: Health Services Research39 Questions
Exam 29: Public Health and the Aging Population42 Questions
Exam 30: Emergency Preparedness42 Questions
Exam 31: Public Health in the Twenty-First Century42 Questions
Exam 32: Exploring Public Health: Definitions, Leaders, and Controversies163 Questions
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Love Canal became a great hazard to its residents because it had been built above an abandoned ______________________.
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industrial dump
whats the occurrence to the appropriate year
-Jack-in-the-Box hamburgers
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New York State Department of Health began searching records of births and deaths and state registries of cancer diagnoses and congenital malformations for evidence of health problems of Love Canal residents
whats the piece of legislation to the appropriate description
-Prohibited most ocean dumping
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Passive surveillance
By 2007, the United States produced about ______________________ tons of coal ash.
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Congress has not reauthorized the corporate taxes to support cleanup under Superfund, but the program continues, paid for by polluters and taxpayers.
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Whats the appropriate description of the piece of legislation?
-Allocated $600 million to facilitate further cleanup of Superfund sites
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whats the piece of legislation to the appropriate description
-Made most incinerators illegal
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whats the occurrence to the appropriate year
-Mexican green onions
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In 2017, the average landfill in the Western United States charged less than $40 per ton for tipping.
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Garbage collection has been an important responsibility of the federal government since the late 19th century.
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Times Beach, Missouri, was contaminated with large amounts of dioxin due to the spraying of ______________________.
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The Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island has been closed since March of 2001 except for its use to dispose of debris from ______________________.
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-Guatemalan raspberries
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What state has the highest rate of recycling in the United States at 95%?
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Legal disposal of hazardous wastes is expensive and no one knows how much illegal "midnight dumping" may actually go on today.
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Whats the appropriate description of the method of disposal?
-53% of municipal solid wastes as well as wastes from other sources are disposed of with this method
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Whats the appropriate description of the method of disposal?
-May be done on an individual or municipal level
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When a landfill has reached its capacity, it is covered with a 2-foot layer of soil which can be used for a park, golf course, or other recreational facility.
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Whats the appropriate description of the piece of legislation?
-Requires that all hazardous wastes be accounted for "from cradle to grave"
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whats the piece of legislation to the appropriate description
-Set standards for sanitary landfills, which have replaced dumps as the most common method of municipal waste disposal
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