Environmental Issues on Global Health Seven Environmental Issues Complete the following chart by identifying seven environmental issues that affect global health. In the second column‚ describe in complete sentences how the issue affects global health. Environmental issue How does the issue affect global health? Overpopulation The Earth’s natural resources are already being consumed at an unsustainable rate. Many of these resources are required to support world health and human life (Donnatelle
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AST20211 Environment and Health UNIT 1: INTRODUCTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH Definition of Environment‚ Health and Disease Environmental Problems Food Borne Diseases Intervention and Control AST20211 Environment and Health What is environment…? • The sum total of our surroundings‚ including all the living and nonliving things with which we interact. • Living things • Animals‚ plants‚ forests‚ fungi‚ etc. • Nonliving things • Continents‚ oceans‚ clouds‚ soil‚ rocks •
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and human health. There are loads of different ways that we as humans affect the world and the environment we live in. Some things that we do can not only change and affect the environment but can also affect our health. Urbanisation is caused by people inhabiting the cities and towns moving away from rural areas. This can be a problem because it causes Overcrowding‚ waste accumulation‚ transport systems. Overcrowding is where too many people are in the same area. This can cause diseases like colds
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What Are the Environmental Factors That Affect Health Health is affected by a combination of factors. The condition and environment is an important consideration when determining health. Other than the more commonly considered factors such as healthcare access‚ factors that have large impacts on the health of a population include the living conditions‚ genetics‚ level of education and the state of the environment. Thus‚ the World Health Organization has defined the determinants of health‚ which are
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Infectious Mononucleosis and Community Health Nursing Infectious mononucleosis (IM)‚ or "mono‚" is a communicable disease that is most commonly caused by the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). EBV is one of the most common human viruses found all over the world‚ and most people will become infected with it at some point in their lives (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC]‚ 2014a). However‚ not all people infected with EBV will develop IM. By understanding the epidemiologic triangle of IM and
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Saylor Blankenship HHE 445 October 23‚ 2014 Chapter 1: Describe the types of environmental health problems that prevail in the developing world. Give at least three examples.There are many diseases and conditions‚ found in adolescence‚ that may be strongly linked to environmental exposures. Evidence shows that Asthma‚ ADHD‚ and diarrheal infections are just a few of the long list of illnesses. Although the causes of asthma are not known‚ one recent ten year study found that the ozone was
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MAXWELL MASUNDA MIDLANDS STATE UNIVERSITY BSC HONOURS GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Registration Number R102163M Period Jan-Dec 2012 Department Health Safety and Environment Endorsed By Work Related Learning Supervisor __________________________
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1. What is the infectious agent (pathogen) that causes this infectious disease? Hepatitis A is cause by the Hepatitis A virus. The Hepatitis A virus causes an inflammation of the liver. 2. How is the infectious agent transmitted through food or water? The Hepatitis A virus is found most commonly in the stools and blood of an infected person about 15 to 45 days before symptoms occur and during the first week of illness. Hepatitis A is transmitted through eating or drinking water that has been
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dispersed in the environment‚ posing significant health threats to wildlife‚ as well as humans. Examples of pollutants would be PCBs‚ which are used in plastics‚ and dioxins‚ which are used in pulp and paper bleaching. Polar bears are particularly vulnerable to the harmful effects of POPs for two key reasons. First‚ POPs tend to concentrate in the Arctic because of a process of long-range air transport and disposition known as the grasshopper effect. Airborne pollutants are carried on air currents
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Along with harming human health‚ air pollution can cause a variety of environmental effects: Acid rain is precipitation containing harmful amounts of nitric and sulfuric acids. These acids are formed primarily by nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides released into the atmosphere when fossil fuels are burned. These acids fall to the Earth either as wet precipitation (rain‚ snow‚ or fog) or dry precipitation (gas and particulates). Some are carried by the wind‚ sometimes hundreds of miles. In the environment
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