Place INDOOR AIR POLLUTION Children’s Health and the Environment WHO Training Package for the Health Sector World Health Organization www.who.int/ceh July 2008 version 1 Indoor Air Pollution Indoor LEARNING OBJECTIVES LEARNING TO UNDERSTAND‚ RECOGNIZE AND KNOW: Hazards of indoor air pollution to children’s health Different toxicants in indoor air‚ according to sources‚ settings and activities Characteristics and issues relating to indoor air pollution in industrialized
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General Education I-A Submitted to: Mrs. Josefa Deyto Professor Pollution is said to be one of those problems that our environment is facing right now‚ due to its harmful effects to everyone and also to our atmosphere. We have different kinds or types of pollution; we have pollution in land‚ in water and in air. We all know that these came from pollutants which were produced by human. Some of these are wood burning to produce
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biological materials that cause harm or discomfort to humans or other living organisms‚ or cause damage to the natural environment or built environment‚ into the atmosphere‚ is called Air Pollution. The atmosphere is a complex dynamic natural gaseous system that is essential to support life on planet Earth. Air pollution threatens our lives. In the major cities in Seoul‚ South Korea; Jakarta‚ Indonesia; Taipei‚ Taiwan; Beijing‚ China; and Bangkok‚ Thailand that the result of air sampling of that particular
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Air pollution is the introduction into the atmosphere of chemicals‚ particulates‚ or biological materials that cause discomfort‚ disease‚ or death to humans‚ damage other living organisms such as food crops‚ or damage the natural environment or built environment. The atmosphere is a complex dynamic natural gaseous system that is essential to support life on planet Earth. Stratospheric ozone depletion due to air pollution has long been recognized as a threat to human health as well as to the Earth’s ecosystems
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country indicate their pitch in decibel in the nosiest areas of corresponding cities‚ e.g. Delhi- 80 db‚ Kolkata - 87‚Bombay-85‚ Chennai-89 db etc. 3 Sources of Noise Pollution:- Noise pollution like other pollutants is also a by- product of industrialization‚ urbanizations and modern civilization. Broadly speaking ‚ the noise pollution has two sources‚ i.e. industrial and non- industrial. The industrial source includes the noise from various industries and big machines working at a very high speed
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“POVERTY AND POLLUTION” In the Article Poverty and Pollution‚ there are many things being discuss such as poverty‚ pollution‚ harmful gases‚ the percentage of infant mortality and how nearly 13‚000 suffer from respiratory disease. Many residents are suffering from different/variety of health problem as an result. These problems are very serious and dangerous. The people over in Brazil’s “valley of death” are having difficulties breathing and could die if there’s nothing done about the situation
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Did you know that most of the ocean pollution comes from us? This pollution can hurt the ocean animals and it will affect the food that we eat. Some of the most worst ocean pollution is untreated sewage dumped into the ocean‚ toxic chemical‚ and oil spills. The sewage gets into the ocean because of sewage pipes that break or leak. This is a problem because the sewage makes to much algae‚ and it will remove the oxygen. Around 80% of the sewage that is in the ocean is untreated. To help stop sewage
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SOIL POLLUTION INTRODUCTION Soil is the thin layer of organic and inorganic materials that covers the Earth’s rocky surface. The organic portion‚ which is derived from the decayed remains of plants and animals‚ is concentrated in the dark uppermost topsoil. The inorganic portion made up of rock fragments‚ was formed over thousands of years by physical and chemical weathering of bedrock. Productive soils are necessary for agriculture to supply the world with sufficient
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plastic pollution‚ the accumulation in the environment of man-made plastic products to the point where they create problems for wildlife and their habitats as well as for human populations. In 1907 the invention of Bakelite brought about a revolution in materials by introducing truly synthetic plastic resins into world commerce. By the end of the 20th century‚ however‚ plastics were found to be persistent polluters of many environmental niches‚ from Mount Everest to the bottom of the sea. Whether
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