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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:
- Discuss one type of environmental health problem that you have in your own community.
- 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?
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Health Hazards Caused Due to the Environment in the Recent Past
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Environmental health hazard would usually result in a wide range of diseases. The
common environmental health problem in the community is respiratory diseases and
especially bronchitis. Although there are a number of individuals who suffer from chronic
bronchitis, the most common type of bronchitis is acute bronchitis. Most of the people that
are usually affected by acute Bronchitis within the community are children. This is so
because the health problem would usually last for longer with significant dry coughs and
wheezing. In most cases, children, as well as adults, show symptoms of wheezing and mucus
which is mainly a result of the blockage of the airways by mucus.
Exposure to environmental hazards would usually result in an increased reaction from
the body. Pollution is one of the environmental hazards that from home one can easily
ascertain that he/she has been exposed to the environmental hazard. There are reactions that
one can get from environmental pollution including reactions from air pollutants, such as bad
odour leading to respiratory infections (Molina-Holgado, Hider, Gaeta, Williams & Francis,
2007). Respiratory infections are a quick way in which one can be able to determine that
there is an environmental hazard, especially pollution because respiratory issues tend to be
instantly triggered one is able to determ...
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