STYRENE chemical and possible health impacts to the community (epidemiology class, DNP)
ASSIGNMENT: Pollution chemicals and Health impact to the community
**Based on the above report (Previous order I sent you), discuss the chemicals released and the possible health impact to the community. HERE DISCUSS BRIEFLY ABOUT THE CHEMICAL BECAUSE YOU ADDRESS THIS ON FIRST PAPER! HERE DISCUSS MORE ABOUT THE IMPACT OF THIS CHEMICAL exposure TO THE Health of the COMMUNITY… THE HEALTH PROBLEMS… cancers etc….
* Discuss some steps the doctor of nursing practice (DNP) nurse could take to correct environmental threats. (SEE THE UPLOADED OLD ASSIGNMENT I DID IN 2010 for my BSN program)—it has some ideas on how to intervene.
- The top chemical in my county is “STYRENE” with 69,893 pounds
* See here for Clean Water Act Comparative Ranking For Gwinnett, Georgia (shows high % for dirty water?)
http://scorecard.goodguide.com/chemical-profiles/summary.tcl?edf_substance_id=100-42-5#hazards
More hazardous than most chemicals in 6 out of 10 ranking systems.
| **They are approximately 20 top polluters in Gwinnett that are polluting the community. MR. TUBS INC. in sugar Hill is ranked as #1.
2. Possible health impacts to the community:
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http://scorecard.goodguide.com/chemical-profiles/summary.tcl?edf_substance_id=100-42-5#hazards
***ARTICLE INFORMATION (Uploaded): “The International Agency for Research on Cancer classified benzene as carcinogenic to humans and styrene as possibly carcinogenic to humans, primarily from associations with lymphohaematopoietic cancers. (Blanc-Lapierre, A., Sauvé, J., & Parent, M. 2018).
“In industry-based cohort studies, exposure to styrene has been linked to lymphatic and haematopoietic cancers, but the excess risk was not consistent.8 35The prostate is hormone dependent and exposure to exogenous hormone modulators may lead to carcinogenesis. An endocrine disruptor activity of styrenehad been suspected based on increased prolactin levels observed in exposed female workers, but this was not supported by experimental data. (Blanc-Lapierre, A., Sauvé, J., & Parent, M. 2018).
By characterizing distributions of exposures in the population, biomonitoring can also provide information on the public health impact of exposure and potential benefits of exposure reduction.
***ARTICLE: “Discussions regarding the many potential chemical health hazards affecting people living near OG operations have dominated the literature in recent years. In general, the hazards are similar to those that would be present in many industrial operations, including the potential for increased chemical exposures through air or water, physical hazards such as noise and vibration, safety hazards, and secondary hazards including psychosocial stress [6,7,8]. Of thechemical hazards, the process of OG extraction releases volatile organic compounds (VOCs) directly into the air. Multiple studies have identified several VOCs in the air…. Some of these VOCs are categorized as hazardous air pollutants by theU.S. EPA and Colorado Regulation 3 (5 CCR 1001-5) due to their potential to cause adverse health effects, such as cancer, neurological, developmental and reproductive effects and some have the capacity to alter endocrine activity at some exposure level (McMullin, T. S., Bamber, A. M., Bon, D., Vigil, D. I., & Michael, V. D. 2018).
***ARTICLE: Air pollution is a serious public health issue, responsible for over seven million deaths a year worldwide [1]. In addition to mortality, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases have been identified as primary health concerns related to exposure [2–4]. More recently, the central nervoussystem was proposed as another organ negatively affected by air pollutants [5], and prenatal air pollution has been identified as having potentially greater impacts than adult exposures. (Lam, J., Sutton, P., Kalkbrenner, A., Windham, G., Halladay, A., Koustas, E., . . . Woodruff, T. 2016).
**ARTICLE: Exposure to poor air quality appears to contribute to health conditions and deaths from COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), respiratory infection, lung cancer, and heart damage. (Ragothaman, A., & Anderson, W. A. (2017).
