St Mary Spital Analysis

Pollution continues to pose an enormous threat to residents of urban cities worldwide. In the August 2008 Monthly Update, it is stated that approximately 800,000 deaths each year can be attributed to outdoor air pollution, making pollution the single most harmful environmental hazard to human health in urban areas (Kallman). The fact that pollution kills hundreds of thousands of people each year alone portrays just how dangerous living in these conditions can be. Kallman writes about a study which proves an increase in upper respiratory diseases, cardiovascular mortality, respiratory mortality, and low birth weights when exposed to air pollutants (August 2008: Monthly Update). These can be very serious diseases and complications which, when contracted, can lead to death or very serious illnesses. There

As the number of smokers are rapidly increasing recently, the number of patients with COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) is also gradually increasing. It is one of the most common chronic diseases and is considered to be one of the five leading diseases following heart disease, pneumonia, HIV and AIDS worldwide (GOLD, 2004). Smoking is the main cause of COPD. However, long term exposure to chemical fumes and air pollution could also cause COPD. This essay is all about how COPD affects individual, family and society as a whole across their lifespan. Also, it discusses the role of a nurse in caring patients with COPD.

The author begins the article by discussing the death percentage related to air pollution and what causes the elevated levels of air pollution. Huth continues the article by pointing out that different areas have different problems related to air pollution. Finally, Huth draws attention to the fact that different countries have different solutions to the air pollution. Though this piece was written for the entire United States, the fact that air pollution can be deadly to humans is universally applicable. Though Huth is a reporter and not an environmental scientist, Huth does cite reports made by credible institutions. Though this article talks only about how air pollution is deadly and does not expand the idea to talk about other health complications, the fact that air pollution is dangerous to human health does support my claim that a reduction in air pollution will lead to a better quality of

The author Crystal Gammon is concerned about how pollution can affect people who remains on a penniless income in East St. Louis. Residence living in East St. Louis and children is having asthma. Seeing that pollution is taking place in the city, asthma rates have been increasing significantly.

Khazan first begins the article by sharing with the readers her childhood experience growing up in the industrial city of Los Angeles. She reported that nine percent of the asthma cases at her school were due to the intensity of traffic fumes produced by the five-hundred trucks per hour passing her elementary school campus. She continues on to say that air pollution is not just a contributor to asthma, but to many other medical issues. Although these statistics are not directly correlated to affecting a child's intelligence, it can be assumed that constant inhalation of toxic fumes can not be good for brain development.

In the fourteenth and fifteenth century, the spread of a deadly plague, the upheaval of the Hundred Years’ War, and the Great Schism has made an impact on the social and economic structure of the society. The positive and negative consequences have changed the way the people lived their lives; however lifestyles vary by where the people stand in the social hierarchy.

As you can see this was a dreadful time in the middle ages. Although, streets filled with diseased bodies and alarm in the air would no doubt influence the middle

The majority of the population were peasants and lived extremely poor conditions. The streets were often lined with mud, sewage and animal waste. The road in front of the butchers stunk with rotting meat and guts. There were many inventive ways that people tried to discard of their sewage, often inconveniencing their neighbours. The government and lords of the land tried many times to introduce laws to reduce the spread of the Black Death, but these were often ignored and therefore proved ineffective. The living conditions of the ordinary folk in Europe in 1347 were terrible with ways for disease to spread

In 1347 news reached England of a horrifying and incurable disease that was spreading from Asia through North Africa and Europe. The Black Death struck London in the autumn of 1348. No one knew how to stop the disease. During the next 18 months it killed half of all Londoners – perhaps 40,000 people. There were so many dead that Londoners had to dig mass graves (large trenches for many bodies). This picture shows one of these graves, which was excavated by archaeologists at the Royal Mint site near the Tower of London. In some of the trenches, the bodies were piled on top of each other, up to five deep. Children’s bodies were placed in the small spaces between adults. By 1350 the Black Death had killed millions of people, possibly half the

The price of goods went down and the standard of living went up. Since agriculture was the biggest occupation, it affected a large portion of the English population. However, this economic growth came at the price of large masses of people dying. “Clearly an age which relies for its prosperity upon large numbers of its members dying at an early age, and suffering the frequent loss of spouses, children, relatives, friends and colleagues is somewhat less than golden,” (Aberth, 70). Even the economic prosperity came from the opposite of what the Renaissance implies because the catalyst was death instead of “rebirth”.

Starting in the year 2004, the air pollution has reached an alarming level in the city o Toronto. Dr Barbara Yaffe, the acting medical officer of health of Toronto Public health, has released a report in July 2004 saying that the “air pollution [in the city] has contributed to over 1700 premature deaths and 6000 hospitalization admission in Toronto each year” (Yaffe, 2004, p.i). According to this report, pollutants such as ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, and carbon monoxide have increased within the air of the city; these pollutants are tiny particles that are 2.5 micron in diameter or less and can affect people’s respiratory system and cause cardiovascular and respiratory problems such as “asthma, bronchitis in children, adult chronic bronchitis, and heart problem” (TPH, 2007, figure 1). Although it

Air pollution can be undoubtedly harmful to pregnancy. Substances such as carbon monoxide, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, benzene, emissions from solid biomass, and nitroarenes all contribute to air pollution. Studies done in North Carolina, California, and East India all conclude the same thing; air pollutants do affect the health of babies during pregnancy. The most severe affects from these toxins include cancer, short-and-long-term morbidity, and stillbirth. Still damaging, yet less traumatizing effects include low birth weight, small for gestational age, and preterm birth. PM2.5 is particulate matter in the air. One study shows it reduces birth weight by 3.1 g (Gray, 2013). Because most of air

Air, is one of the most substantial source to mankind and our planet. While it exists, so does everything else along. However, in today’s epidemic, there has been certain factors that have increased in understanding whether the air we breathe today is healthy or not? Is it doing more harm than we thought? In other words, the health risks against air pollution have risen in the past few decades; all from what you may ask? Well, it could be for various factors and evaluations; either environmental or materialistic. Pollution is a major public health crisis in the world. (Friis, 2012). This is one of the conflicts that contribute to various aspects of an individual’s life, whether they may realize it or not. In this paper will include the sources that cause pollution with the effects it cause as well as policies on the regulation of air pollution.

Studies have provided an understanding and argue that the choice to cremate or bury the dead may have been one of the biggest decisions for the Anglo-Saxons (Williams, H. 2002). But also, that we should take into consideration that cremation was a show and helped define social distinctions within the living society, as the inclusion in the rite would define your social distinction (Williams, H. 2002).

Nearly 3 billion people in the developing world are exposed to indoor air pollution (IAP) through smoke from traditional cook stoves and open fires used for cooking and heating purposes (Cleancookstoves.org, 2014). Women as head of household are often in charge of preparing and cooking meals, and as such are exposed to the smoke from these duties multiple times daily over the life course. Use of these open fires and inefficient cook stoves that burn solid fuels (wood, dung, agriculture) and coal not only poses gender-specific health hazards, but also have salient consequences for quality of life, education, income generation and environmental sustainability. IAP itself is a complex mixture of particles in smoke from cooking that overwhelms poorly ventilated households, which breach the acceptable levels for air polluting particles 100-fold (Who.int, 2014). Once respired, these particles lodge deep within the lungs and cannot be dislodged, leading on to cause a range of non-communicable diseases, most notably: acute and chronic respiratory/lung disease, COPD, lung cancer and bronchitis, as well as accounting for 4.3 million premature deaths (Who.int, 2014). It is through the combustion of solid fuels and biomass that these particles are released into the air, and as such those in living in resource constrained settings are highly vulnerable to lung diseases from household pollution, as they do not have access to clean energy and fuels.