PUBH6002: Global and Environmental Health Issues Quiz 2 - Assessment

This document presents the solutions to a PUBH6002 Quiz 2 assignment, focusing on global and environmental health issues. The quiz covers various aspects, including the obesogenic effects of the built environment, workplace health and safety responsibilities, and the application of the Haddon Matrix for risk analysis. It also addresses the cardinal rules of risk communication and examines the social, economic, and physical environmental factors that create health risks, using a case study of two individuals. The solutions provide comprehensive answers to multiple-choice questions and offer detailed analyses of the scenario, including recommendations for addressing identified health challenges. The assignment aims to assess the understanding of environmental factors influencing health, globalization's impact, and social determinants of health, aligning with the learning outcomes of the course.

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Name of the student
Name of the university
Author note

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Q1 Which features of the built environment can have an obesogenic effect on health?
a) Footpaths and parks for walking
b) Roads, bicycle lanes and public transport for getting around
c) Proximity to pollution-producing roads and factories
d) All of the above
Q2 According to the Safe Work Australia website, who does the law hold responsible for health
and safety in the workplace?
a) My employer
b) My colleagues
c) Me
d) All of the above

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Q3 The Haddon Matrix is one useful tool for analyzing events that result in injury, so that we can
develop strategies to reduce injury risk. Use the Haddon Matrix to analyze risk for the following
scenario.
Human or host Vector Physical
Environment
Socio economic
environment
Pre Event Substance
misuse, departed
before midnight
Older model
compact
Vehicle, worn
brake pads
Dry and unlit
roads
Consumption of
alcoholic
beverages in a
family
celebration
through the
evening
Event Forgot to fasten
seatbelt
Insufficient
slowing of car,
no presence of
airbags in the car
The driver
braked before
the curve in road
The offences as
per the Haddon
matrix are not
enforced
effectively
Post Event Transported to
hospital
Swerving of car
and car rolled
over several
times
The driver was
discovered
shortly and
remained in a
coma in the
hospital
After the
accident the
driver was found
shortly and was
transferred to the
hospital by the

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local people.
Q4 Which of these is not one of the seven cardinal rules of risk communication?
a) Accept and involve the receiver of risk information as a legitimate partner
b) Plan and tailor risk communication strategies
c) Listen to your audience
d) Be honest, frank and open
e) Limit communications to critical information only
f) Coordinate and collaborate with other credible sources
g) Plan for media influence
h) Speak clearly and with compassion
Q5 What are the features of the social, economic and physical environments that create health
risks to Susan and Lisa?

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Health and the challenges related to health tends to result from a complex interplay of a
various number of the forces. This includes factors of economic, social and physical
environment. As per the above case study, Lisa and Susan are the victims of the determinants of
the health related hazards that are furthermore challenging and taking toll of their physical and
mental health of livelihood.
Both Lisa and Susan have been rejected by the society. After leaving the company of an
abusive partner, Susan and Lisa was being rejected from family and social support. Even after
moving next to the highway of the industrial part of town, the neighbors of the complex were not
friendly with them. The neighbors instead of making friendship swore at them by slamming their
door on their face. This social rejection as made the mother and her daughter suffer from social
inclusion which targets towards the possible health risk of depression, anxiety and hopelessness,
thus affecting their mental health and stress level as social factors.
The economic factors that can be identified as the probable health risk towards Lisa and
Susan includes their degrading economic or financial conditions. Susan left her partner who did
not make child supportive payments together with abusive treatments towards them. Her
employment options is also limited since she did not finished school. Susan furthermore is left
with no energy after work to accompany her daughter. Due to limited finances, Susan cannot
afford a bicycle that Lisa wants, thus hampering their standard of living which is one of the
essential factor towards a healthy living.
The physical environmental factors possess a big challenge towards the health and the
wellbeing of individual. In the given case study, the pollution caused due to climate changes
after Lisa and Susan moved to the busy highway of the industrial part of the town has

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tremendous health effect f them. Susan was affected with frequent headaches while Lisa
developed asthma due to the pollution from the factories of that area. Furthermore employment
hazards from the cleaning companies which Susan is employed with as a cleaner possess threat
for the development of health risk to Susan. These factors of physical environment is affecting
the health and the wellbeing of Lisa and Susan.
Some of the recommendations that can be made for addressing these environmental factors that
are possessing as challenge to Lisa and Susan are as follows.
 Implementation of the policy towards the safe health and employment options for the
single mother so that they can protect their family
 The school which Lisa attends should develop the policy for supervise children of the
parents who works late and cannot give them time
 The neighbors of the society should extend their helping hand with a smiling face to
make Susan and her daughter feel comfortable
 The government of the country should develop policies to encourage women in the
society to open up regarding their abusive relationships and violent partners and get
justice
 Susan should approach the nearby police station, get over her fear and take her violent
partner to the court for claiming her rights and the child support payments from her
partner.

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References
Frumkin, H. (Ed.). (2016). Environmental health: from global to local. John Wiley & Sons.