Week 5_ PHCM9612 Environmental Health by UNSW Medicine & Health https://padlet.com/unswmedicineandhealth/2021EH_W5 Week 5 Recap en-us 2021-06-30 23:33:37 UTC 2025-10-22 20:12:55 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f600.png Please tell us :- ) unswmedicineandhealth https://padlet.com/unswmedicineandhealth/2021EH_W5/wish/1632398879 1) What are the key learnings this week for you?

2) What surprised you?

3) What environmental health story/news in this week caught your interest?

4) Reflections and tips on doing the peer-led forum discussions? (As co-moderator/participant)]]> 2021-06-30 23:34:55 UTC https://padlet.com/unswmedicineandhealth/2021EH_W5/wish/1632398879 Group 1 https://padlet.com/unswmedicineandhealth/2021EH_W5/wish/1632515284 1) What are the key learnings this week for you?
- Environmental exposures are broader than just the physical environment but the social environment
- HIA: Variable ways to operate a HIA, with alternative tools and processes

2) What surprised you?
- Multiple environmental exposures that increase risk of breast cancer that we weren't aware of.
- HIA: Not mandated in certain industries
- Food eaten at home has more sugars/fats; food eaten outside is less nutritional

3) What environmental health story/news in this week caught your interest?
- COVID is bad :); Vaccination impact on delta strain - Increasing cases despite vaccination
- Climate change is a major health challenge of this generation from NZ health minister - changing political attitudes to climate change

4) Reflections and tips on doing the peer-led forum discussions? (As co-moderator/participant)
- Remember to subscribe to the forum so as not to miss responses.]]> 2021-07-01 00:57:10 UTC https://padlet.com/unswmedicineandhealth/2021EH_W5/wish/1632515284 Group 1.1 https://padlet.com/unswmedicineandhealth/2021EH_W5/wish/1632528570 1) Some of the health facts around the influencing factors on disease and night shift workers etc
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1) Interesting graph from AIHW saying that ages at which social connectedness is low which doesnt necessarily correlate with usual ages that loneliness is experienced
2) Thought provoke on all the aspects, studies and variations on what can influence health, its so complex and interesting and scary all at once. 
3) All covid and climate chaneg at the moment. Heat wave in northern hemisphere. 
Lake George disappearing and reappearing... what is the impact? issue of climate change
3)Lonliness is an interesting and complex social factor in the discussion. Internet has assisted in the evolution of lonliness in our socities.
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