Unit 38: Environmental Health

When you think of problems in the world today, water pollution isn’t one that would normally come up. In fact it is one of the worst problems in the world today. Water pollution, by definition, is the contamination of streams, lakes, underground water, bays, or oceans by any substances harmful to living things. All living things contain water and most need water to survive, so water pollution is a big problem. If severe, the pollution can kill off birds, fish, and any animals that use the water source. In some cases even killing an entire species.

During the era of the Industrial Revolution, there was an abundance of these problems, which meant diseases were able to permeate rapidly. In a lecture on the Industrial Revolution, the speaker discussed how the water management system was incompetent. In other words, the water was extremely contaminated. This contributed to the spread of disease because contaminated water meant the water was infested with dangerous viruses or bacteria that can cause fatal diseases, and people bathed and drank this polluted water. Water is essential to human life, and because the contaminated water was their only resource, they must drink or use it; hence the entire population was at risk of contracting a disease. Additionally, in an article called “Population Growth and Movement in the Industrial Revolution”, the author states, “This might be surprising given that the newly crowded cities were rife for disease and illness, with an urban death rate higher than the rural areas…”(Wilde). Since the cities were so crowded, if a person was sick then he or she would probably come into contact with countless people. He or she may bump into other individuals, shake hands with others, or even hug other people. As a result, numerous people have been exposed to the illness and they will presumably come into contact with more people in the busy streets of the city. Sanitation problems and

A copious amount of health problems can occur directly and indirectly due to pollution that could chronically impact a person, further

Overcrowding caused a lot of deaths and so did diseases. In 1862 in the Alton prison a small pox outbreak occurred. It killed 300 men in one winter. Small pox, a contagious disease goes around when you talk cough and are cramped together.

Environmental health plays a major role on a community and effects the residents on a daily basis. Buildings, parks, food options, etc., can encourage healthy lifestyles if residents have access to these amenities. Parks, especially in neighborhoods such as Brownsville and east New York, are key areas in the community that are not only places of leisure, but can also promote healthy lifestyles to the residents. Vegetation can include personal patches of vegetation that people

The positive effects of overcrowding are that humans are a natural resource, and factories needed people in order to

Air: Pollution in the air is not healthy but not lethal if you encounter it for a small while. In Utah, it’s possible for an inversion to cover the valley for days on end until a storm pushes it out. Due to this much exposure to it, the risk of increase in lung cancer, respiratory disease, even damage to the kidneys, nerves, liver, and brain. The constant exposure to pollution to kids can stunt the growth of their lungs and complicates medical conditions of the elderly.

Rapid population growth and urbanization are the root of overpopulation which leads to lack in resources and disease. Urbanization is when too much of a population grows in an urban/city environment causing too many people in sharing in one small area. Thus, violence, crime and disorder accor.

Like it or not people have a huge impact on the environment. A lot of the time, the impact is detrimental to the environment. The detriment that people cause can affect the food we the air we breathe. The people that do this to us make other people sick. These diseases make other people sick and die.

WHO (2008, p. 425) refers “overcrowding as a situation in which more people were living within a single dwelling than there was space for, this type of living creates no privacy, hygienic ways impossible, rest and sleep difficult.’’ The people in Armall do not enjoy their sleep they were always disturbed because of their living conditions, cramped living conditions harm family relationships, negatively overcrowded affected children’s education and that overcrowding affected the ability of children

Among its short-term health effects, according to cleanhouston.org, are reduce ability to breathe, inflammation of the lung tissue, as well as irritation of the nose and throat, and damage to the respiratory cells. If well this problems do not represent a life-threatening problem for most of the people, children and the elderly, who do not possess a very strong respiratory system. It is been proved that pollution has effects on the children illness already existing in the elderly can be aggravated by pollution, which can put their lives on severe

You can’t escape from it. Everybody has to breath, and when air isn’t clean you health is affected. Air pollution is problem of all of us. You might think that you are healthy because you eat, and do only healthy things, so you cannot be sick, or get cancer, allergies or even die. Everybody is affected by air pollution.

Another problem, due the overpopulation, many people in India go to sleep on the roads with an empty stomach. It happened because these people can’t afford the food and land prices, which caused by the overpopulation. For example, take a glance at Paul R. Ehrlich reading, “The population Bomb” where he argued that a growing number of population placed escalating strains on all aspects of the natural world. “If population growth

An overcrowded area puts enormous pressure on the state for the provision of houses and other services. People in the urban areas end up being jobless because there is a lot of demand for jobs that is caused by this overpopulation. Even the rural areas suffer because there will be depopulation, people will move out leaving the place to the elders only. The rural areas will not be productive in anyway because people who are economically active have left, this means we may end up not having people who can bring changes in the rural areas or those who serve as role model to the upcoming generation.

overpopulation. Overpopulation means too many people live in an area, and it has a deep