Contacts with environmental biodiversity affect human health: links revealed during the initial waves of the COVID-19 pandemicAllergiesBiodiversity antigen richnessCivilization diseasesContacts with natureInfec
With the increasing concern on environmental health issues, numerous epidemiological studies have been performed to establish the link between environmental pollutant exposure and human health problems, including pulmonary and cardiovascular, endocrine, reproductive, nerve system diseases, and some other clinic...
In 1962, Rachel Carson published the book “Silent Spring”, in which she mentioned problems that could arise from the indiscriminate use of pesticides. This book inspired widespread concern about the impact of pesticides on the human health and the environment. In 1967, Ratcliffe [4] noted incr...
Some examples of present day environmental health issues include: Climate change Pollution Deforestation Disease Environmental health factors are the various things within the environment that affect human-beings health. Dangerous substances may come from different sources that originated from human development...
Over recent decades, China has experienced a strong warming pattern with a growing frequency of extreme weather events, and the impacts of climate change on China’s environment and human health have been consistently observed, with increasing O3 air pollution, decreases in water resources and ...
In addition to environmental factors,human healthis affected by many other interrelated and overlapping factors. One widely accepted model, which captures the interrelationships between various factors that affect human health is theDahlgren and Whitehead (1991)‘Policy Rainbow’ (Figure 1). This rainbow...
of producing the same harms the environment in many ways. The process of converting uranium into usable energy produces radioactive waste (2000 metric tons of radioactive waste is generated in a year in the USA alone) which is extremely harmful for human, animal and plant health at many ...
The objective of this study was to examine the relationships among environmental and health values, ecological worldview, perception of consequences, the ascription of responsibility, and personal norms in the context of the value-belief-norm (VBN) model and how compatibility influences the intentions...
At its most basic, EHL has been described as an ability to make connections between environmental exposures and human health [1]. Representations of EHL tend to start with individual understanding of specific risks and then lead to broader understanding, including strategies that empower people to ...
so on. Water pollution cause many kinds of disease that have negative effects on human beings, sometimes the diseases will take people’s life away. Dirty air will increase the rate of getting lung cancer. While the noise pollution will cause insomnia. People’s health condition will be ...