[ANSWER] Environmental Health and Health Effects of Environmental Change
TASK DESCRIPTION
Environmental Health and Effects of Environmental Change
This assignment will help you evaluate your role with improving/eliminating environmental barriers to health.
Instructions:
- Write a 5-6 page paper on environmental health, the environmental factors that impact health Effects of Environmental Change, and your role with improving/eliminating environmental barriers to health.
- In this paper you will apply the material presented in this lesson.
- Be sure to use the resources in the lesson and previous lessons in this module as appropriate.
- Copy/save your results and upload the file by clicking “Browse My Computer” for Attach file.
- View grading rubric
Guidelines:
- Your paper should be a WORD document.
- Your paper should be 5-6 pages long excluding the abstract title page and reference page; in other words, the body of your paper paper should be 5 to 6 pages.
- Your paper should be organized as follows:
- Title page: Environmental Health and Health Effects of Environmental Change
- Abstract
- Introduction: One paragraph (minimum of 4 to 5 sentences)
- Synopsis (include all pertinent information obtained in this lesson) (minimum of one page)
- Environmental Factors that Impact Health Effects of Environmental Change(minimum of one page)
- My Role in Improving/Eliminating Environmental Barriers to Health Effects of Environmental Change (give specific examples of how you can make a difference) (minimum of 1 page)
- Summary and Conclusion (minimum of one paragraph of 4 to 5 sentences)
- Use APA style: Abstract (blocked comprehensive) running head, title page, citations, reference page).
- Use standard English grammar and spelling.
- Must use a minimum of 3 references from the Module.
Chapter Summary
Chapter 8
In this lesson, we focus on how our environment in influences on health states.
Global warming is increasing the prevalence of certain infectious diseases.
- Can man maintain health in a polluted environment?
- What about our food supply?
Both food scarcity and obesity have increased due to our modern environment.
Resources:
Explore the Effects of Environmental Change on Global Health
Please review the following web sites which complement the information in your textbook readings:
- Coca-Cola & Water Depletion & Contamination in India – http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_shiva.html – Link to interview with Vandana Shiva
- Taking Root: Planting trees for fuel, food and timber – http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/takingroot/film.html
- The Future of Food (10 minute preview) http://www.thefutureoffood.com/onlinevideo.html – Entire file available in MDC Medical Campus Library
- The International Forum on Globalization (IFG) http://ifg.org/about/about-us/ – The IFG addresses the cultural, social, political, and environmental impacts of economic globalization
- Trees for the Future – http://www.treesforthefuture.org/
[ANSWER PREVIEW]
Environmental health describes all the elements and aspects of disease and human health that depend on various environmental factors. It may also define the practice and theory of analysing and monitoring the environmental factors that potentially impact health. Environmental health encompasses both direct and pathological detriments associated with chemical emission into the environment, biological agents and radiation, and their effects on the wellbeing of the general cultural, physical, social and psychological environment which may include urban development, transport, housing and land use (White, Stallones & Last, 2013). The environment, and the ecology, support the life of every living thing that it envelopes, thus, its protection and conservation is imperative for the continued wellbeing of the living organisms.
The field of environmental health borrows majorly from three disciplines: toxicology, environmental epidemiology, and exposure science. While each of these subjects contribute unique information to environmental health, the constituent information may have some extent of overlap given that they describe a common subject. Environmental epidemiology focuses on the interlink between human health and the environmental exposures such as exposure to radiation, chemicals or microbiological agents. The field of environmental epidemiology is replete with observational studies and deductive conclusions given that human beings cannot be….[Buy Full Answer for Just USD 9: 2048 WORDS] Go Home
[SOLUTION DESCRIPTION]
Type: Essay
Word Count: 2048
Grade/Mark: 88 (Distinction)