Environmental health is the science that studies how the environment influences the human disease and health. Environment means things that are natural to us in the environment, for instance air, water, and soil. However, it also covers the physical, chemical, biological, and social features that surround us every day.
The physical environment is the man-made or built structures that include our living, work, and even schools. Included in the community systems such as the roads and our transportations, and waste management. However, the alterations such as air pollution to our natural environment, is included in the physical section. The social environment is our social lifestyles like diet, exercise, socioeconomic status and many other factors that will affect our health. (DEPA (1996): "Chemicals – Status and Perspectives. Excerpts from a discussion paper from DEPA, English Summary and List of Undesirable Substances".)
The interaction of a human’s genetics will affect the balance of their environment with disease and health. Genetics play an important role on the environment, because of the trigger that reacts to disease. However, gender and age may also affect the interaction with the genetics and environment. The populations are at an increased risk for many diseases with the environmental components, which may include cancer, asthma, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and there are many more diseases or conditions out there.
Air quality influences our health and environment. Protecting the public and the environment should be a primary goal of the environmental regulation. There are six pollutants are carbon monoxide, lead, nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter [PM], ozone, and sulfur dioxide. These are very harm...
... middle of paper ...
...ed from the environment. I do realize funding will have an impact for this, but we need to be healthy so we can live a healthy life. We can do many things ourselves to protect us from the environment however, we can only do so much. We need further help from scientific studies and hypothesis to protect our health from the damaging environment.
Works Cited
DEPA (1996): "Chemicals – Status and Perspectives. Excerpts from a discussion paper from DEPA, English Summary and List of Undesirable Substances". http://www2.mst.dk/common/Udgivramme/Frame.asp?http://www2.mst.dk/udgiv/publica tions/2001/87-7944-519-5/html/kap02_eng.html
http://www.cna-nurses.ca/CNA/issues/environment/default_e.aspx
http://healthandenergy.com/air_pollution_health_effects.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1519570/pdf/envhper00370-0049.pdf
There are six common pollutants in the air, which include ozone, particulate matter, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, and lead. These pollutants led to many different symptoms across the United States. Ozone pollution leads to impaired respiratory system. Particulate matter affects respiratory systems, causes cancer, and premature death. Carbon monoxide affects the bloodstream and reduces oxygen to the body’s organs. Nitrogen oxide causes influenza. Sulfur dioxide effects respiratory illness and pulmonary defenses. Lead causes effects in the liver,
Physical environment can affect to other areas of determinant of health, such as the social intersection, individual behavior, biology and genetics and access to health services. Physical environment of the determinant of health may consistent a social factor and the physical condition of the environment, which both of this impact a wide range of health, function and quality of life outcomes. For instance, available and accessibility of resources will enhance people and the community to stay health, safe and content. The available of playground, safe water, clean air, healthy workplaces, safe houses, communities, employment and etc, are all contribute to good health. All this condition is very important to a community and to individual and without it will may rise problem in other area of the determinant of health. For instance, living in a community that has low quality of air raise a health problem in that community and may cause of or the result of the social interaction of determinant of health, individual behavior and health services. The physical environment is important because the instability of this can cause many problem to the people who live
When we think of air pollution we think of the refineries in our cities and the exhaust coming from our cars mostly. In reality there are many more pollutants that we don't think about every day. The six most common air pollutants are; “Carbon monoxide, Nitrogen oxides, Sulphur oxides, Particulate matter, Volatile organic compounds, and Ground-level ozone (nitrogen oxide and Volatile organic compounds reaction)”(David Suzuki Foundation). The fact is people are dying from air pollution and we are doing nothing to make it better, in fact air pollution is getting worse.
...t has the ability to change a person in an instant and I find it difficult to be able to summarize the role of environment in a single sentence. However, I feel as though my definition will be useful when assessing a client in order to fully understand circumstances that surround them in everyday life. For example, poor socioeconomic status could result in poor living conditions and this could affect their health state.
Environment plays a big role in human health. Having a healthy environment such as clean air can bring positive impact to people’s health.
In Health 4073 we have discussed all components of health as I mentioned above. One particular component that stands out to me personally is environmental. The environmental component of health refers to a person’s surroundings, the kind of area he or
Another advantage would be that is recognises the interrelationships between socio-cultural and environmental factors that influence social constructs. Many cultural and environmental factors impact and influence in individual?s health. Some of these may include, the climatic conditions, physical environment which influences the health of the individual and what society and culture expects of them. Climatic conditions can have a big impact of an individual?s health because of the decreasing amount of space to do physical activity.
Environmental Studies is the academic field, which systematically studies human interaction with the environment in which we live in. It is a broad field of study that includes the natural environment, built environment, and the sets of relationships between them. Environmental studies takes into account many different factors that help provide an enjoyable, fruitful way of life, such as national policies, politics, laws, economics, sociology and other social aspects, planning, pollution control, natural resources, and the interactions of human beings and nature.
Health stands for both the physical and mental wellbeing of individual, not only the absence of disease. The social determinants of health includes the environmental conditions, living standards, relation in between the communities, families, workplaces and healthcare facilities along with policies and
Environment refers to the internal and external context or setting of a person’s social experience (Arnold & Boggs, 2001; Kozier et al., 2014). This consists of physical, psychological, social, cultural, historical, political and economic dimensions; thus, person and environment are fundamentally intertwined (Arnold & Boggs, 2011; Schim et al., 2007; Thorne et al., 1998). The notion of environment is multilayered and constructed, therefore, constantly changing, distinctly serving to shape a person’s health (Thorne et al., 1998). The concept of environment is foundational to the, “Social Determinants of Health: The Canadian Facts,” and in practice, helps the nurse describe, explain, and predict health outcomes and their context (Kozier et al., 2014; Mikkonen &Raphael, 2010).
It’s a face-paced world and it’s not slowing down. Have you ever thought of all the harmful stuff that is in the air? Think of a big city where there are tons of cars and factories that pollute the air. After thinking about that and reading about epigenetics, environmental interactions do have an impact on people’s genes and health. Different environmental factors can damage some linkage DNA, and possibly alter genetic traits for generations to come. Environmental factors cause genes to be turned on and off. When the genes get turned on and off it can be for the good or bad depending on lifestyle factors. From the article “How do your genes and the environment interact?” There were many different ways listed that genes and the environment can interact. Those ways are mutagens and gene-gene interactions. “Mutagens are pollutants in the environment that enter the body and directly change your DNA sequence.” “Gene-gene interactions occur when pollutants in the environment do not change your DNA sequence, but rather cause a chain reaction that affects the functioning of one gene that then affects the functioning of another.” Most of diseases are a combination of genetic risk and the environment someone lives
...ies, but also the social environment and habits in which we involve ourselves in. The environment in which we live can be more influential than we are sometimes willing to admit, and it is these influential aspects of life that unintentionally cause a majority of health related issues.
There are many kinds of air pollution. The ones I want to talk about are the ozone, acid rain, carbon monoxide and toxic air contaminants. Ozone is formed when hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxide react in sunlight. Therefore, ozone is at its peak during hot summer days. Exposure to high levels of ozone can have serious consequences on your health. It can cause respiratory disease, loss of pulmonary elasticity, and premature aging of our lungs. Next, is acid rain, which occurs in the atmosphere in the form of sulfur and nitrogen oxide. These pollutants can have serious damaging affects on aquatic, forest and wildlife ecosystems, as well as deterioration of buildings. Carbon monoxide is another form of pollution. It reduces the blood?s ability to carry oxygen. If a human is exposed to higher levels, it can cause chest pains, angina attacks or even death.
Air pollution is a type of pollution that can severely damage our environment as well as the earth’s atmosphere. Air pollution occurs all the time when the air contains many substances ...
The environment and health are very closely linked. The environment in which we inhabit and go about our daily lives, directly impacts on our physical, mental and social well-being. There are biological, chemical and physical factors that can affect human health in a physical and mental way. The World Health Organisation states that "health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" (WHO 1948), meaning that although many factors relating to health are associated with environmental pollution, they can also be caused by the environment in which we work and live in. The relationship between the environment and health, can however be quite complex. Human health is not only as a result of air, water and ground pollution, but also things such as food, genetics, life style and quality, which directly affect human susceptibility to illness, disease and possibly death. Disruptions to the environment, such as substance dispersal, climate change, acidification, ground pollution, photochemical air pollution and over fertilisation can also impact on human health. Therefore, there are direct and indirect links to the environment and health issues.