Question

Introduction to environmental health class

Instructions

Environmental Hazards

Increase in Environment Related Health Hazards in Recent Years

The study of environmental health is crucial to one's understanding of the hazards and potential adverse effects posed by environmental agents and the extent to which environmental factors play a role in human disease. This foundation is essential for being an effective advocate for preventing environmentally caused diseases and for more advanced study of environmental health issues.

Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research on the topic, "Health Hazards Caused Due to the Environment in the Recent Past."

On the basis of your research and understanding of the topic, create a 3- to 4-page (except the title and the reference pages) Microsoft Word document that addresses the following questions:

Research about Pollution

Answer those questions about Pollution

• Discuss one type of environmental health problem that you have in your own community ( I have selected the Pollution) and Explain how you can determine whether you are exposed to increased levels of environmental hazards in your home.
• Identify and explain the types of associations found between environmental hazards and health outcomes.
• Explain a relationship between exposure to a hazard in the environment and degenerative brain disease, such as Alzheimer.
• Explain why children are more vulnerable to environmental toxins than adults. What types of policies are needed to protect vulnerable populations from environmental hazards?

Note it's research paper so The answer should be at least 3 pages including the all points above ( not 2 sentences )

Answer 1

• Discuss one type of environmental health problem that you have in your own community and explain how you can determine whether you are exposed to increased levels of environmental hazards in your home.

Answer:

Environment Pollution:

Any undesirable change in the environment which cause a negative effect on the any living or non-living organisms is known as environment pollution.

There are many health problem in our community behind that a basic reason is environment pollution. Many diseases are directly or indirectly related to the environment pollution. Out of these disease some names of diseases are given below:

Direct Related to environment pollution:

1. Lung cancer
2. Cardiovascular diseases
3. Asthma
4. Emphysema
5. Pulmonary cancer

Direct Related to environment pollution:

1. Malaria
2. Dengue
3. Cholera

Lung Cancer:

Lung cancer is the disease commonly find in the human beings. The basic reason behind this disease is polluted air. In recent days a study in India, Delhi; 34% of the people of Delhi is suffering from the lung disease (study in a limit set of groups of peoples). Out of them 3.9% peoples are seriously suffering from the last stage of the lung cancer.

Reasons of lung:

1. Sulfate aerosols
2. Fossils Fuel: gases release during use of fossils fuel for example nitrogen, carbon-dioxide etc.
3. Combustion of carbon generated material.
4. Smoking

Control:

By following precautions we can preserve ourselves by this disease.

1. Avoid smoking
2. Less use of carboneous material.

In our home control on use of any hazards material must be avoid the environment pollution.    

• Explain a relationship between exposure to a hazard in the environment and degenerative brain disease, such as Alzheimer.

Answer:

A very deep relation between exposure to a hazard in the environment and degenerative brain disease for example Alzheimer

Alzheimer is a neurodegenerative disease which means in this disease functions of neurons are totally disturb or many neurons change their positions or directions; in many cases of this disease dead neurons were identified in the brain.

A lot of hypothesis suggested by scientists about this neurodegenerative disease that gives scientific reason behind this disease must be a hazards environment.

A few years past in 2007 German neurologist proved that Alzheimer could be cause by air pollutant like carbon, nitrogen gas.

In neurovascular hypothesis also suggested the same. Nitrogen gas directly effect on our neurons which may cause that disturb the whole functions of neurons. Finally it causes the Alzheimer disease.

•    Explain why children are more vulnerable to environmental toxins than adults. What types of policies are needed to protect vulnerable populations from environmental hazards?

Answer:

Two basic reason behind it that children are more vulnerable to environment toxin than adults

1. Weak immune system:
2. DHA hormone

Weak Immune system:

Children have very weak immune system than adult it is the basic reason of the more vulnerable to environment toxin for the children. Due to high immunity level adult can fight better against the toxins present in environment.

DHA hormone:

DHA is a growth hormone present in every children due to presence of this hormone high cellular activity process however they take many number of times food and water than adults a big reason of environment toxins more close than adult. This is main reason behind that more vulnerability.

Policies:

Basically two policies that we must follow to avoid the hazards environment.

1. Educate everyone about the nature and hazards effects of pollution.
2. Follow all basic preventions that are time to time announced by the WHO and local government about environment.