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Focus on Health # 5
Chapters 15, 16, 17
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Identity Theft | A crime involving the fraudulent use of a person's name, Social Security number, credit line, or other personal, financial or identifying information. |
| Intimate partner violence (IPV) | Interpersonal violence perpetrated by a current or former spouse, date, or cohabiting partner. |
| Stalking | A crime involving repeated visual or physical proximity, nonconsensual communication, or threats that would cause fear in a reasonable person. |
| Terrorism | Any actions intended to harm or kill civilians in order to intimidate a populace or force a government to take some actions. |
| Air Pollution | Substances in the atmosphere that can have adverse effects on human health, crop productivity, and natural communities |
| Air toxics | A class of 177 toxic air pollutants identified by the US Environmental Protection Agency as known or suspected causes of cancer or other serious health effects. |
| Asbestos | A class of minerals that have a fibrous crystal structure; a known carcinogen when inhaled. |
| Carbon Monoxide | A gaseous by-product of the incomplete combustion of natural gas, kerosene, heating oil, wood, coal, gasoline, and tobacco; a compound that can "inactive" red blood cells. |
| Fecal coliform bacteria | A category of bacteria that live within the intestines of warm-bloooded animals |
| Green space | Areas of land that are dominated by domesticated or natural vegetation, including rural farmland, city lawns and parks. |
| Ionizing radiation | Electromagnetic radiation that is capable of breaking chemical bonds, such as X- rays and gamma |
| Nonionizing radiation | Forms of electromagnetic radiation that cannot break chemical bonds, but may excite electrons or heat biological materials. |
| Radon | A naturally occurring radioactive gas that is emitted during the decay of uranium in soil, rock, and water. |
| Toxic pollutants | Substances known to cause or suspected of causing cancer or other serious health problems. |
| Tropospheric ozone | Three oxygen atoms that are bound into a single molecule as it occurs in the lower layer of the atmosphere, close to the ground. |
| Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) | A wide variety of chemicals that contain carbon and readily evaporate into the air. |
| Crypts | Burial locations generally underneath churches. |
| Direct (active) euthanasia | Intentionally causing death. |
| Durable power of attorney for health care | A legal document that designates who will make health care decisions for people unable to do so. |
| Epitaph | An inscription on a grave marker or monument. |
| Eulogy | A composition or speech that praises someone; often delivered at a funeral or memorial service. |
| Hospice | An approach to caring for terminally ill patients that maximizes the quality of life and allows death with dignity. |
| Indirect (passive) euthanasia | Allowing people to die without the use of life-sustaining procedures. |
| Living will | A legal document that requires physicians or family members to carry out a person's wishes to die natually, without receiving sustaining treatments. |
| Mausoleum | An above ground structure, which frequently resembles a small stone house,into which caskets can be placed for disposition. |
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