Module 4 Activity (Paper): Pathological Environment
Using your own your research:
• Select and thoroughly describe a pathological environment • Determine the potential pathological effects an agent in the environment or the pathological environment itself may have on citizens or a specific population • Assess the potential ramifications resulting from continual exposure • Identify ways and means to minimize risk

You can use these questions to help guide your thinking and research (please think beyond simple air pollution):

1. Does the increase in environmentally related health risks reflect an underlying increase in the pathogenicity of certain environments?

2. Are specific patterns of human social interaction within those environments to blame for the pathological environment? (for example cars we drive cause pollution)

3. Does the rising environmental health toll reflect heightened human awareness (i.e. we are tracking and making correlations of cause and effect) or perhaps it is due to increased a’, lnerability to such risks? at factors account for the trends related to pathological environment?  (for example cars we drive cause pollution)

4. What factors account for the trends related to the pathological environment?

5. How important is the need to balance preventing or reducing environmental health threats to societal goals including economic well-being?