Environmental Impact on Human Health
People tend to blame their diseases on radiation and the harmful effects of other environmental pollutants. However, the impact of ecology on human health in Russia today is only 25–50% of the total of all influencing factors. And only in 30–40 years, according to experts, the dependence of the physical condition and well-being of citizens of the Russian Federation on the environment will increase to 50–70%.
The greatest impact on the health of Russians has a lifestyle that they lead (50%). Among the components of this factor:
nature of power,
good and bad habits
physical activity,
neuropsychiatric condition (stress, depression, etc.).
Ecology (25%) is on the second place according to the degree of influence on human health, heredity is on the third place, which makes up as much as 20%. The remaining 5% comes from medicine. However, there are cases when the effect of several of these 4 factors of influence on human health overlap each other.
First example: medicine is practically powerless when it comes to eco-dependent diseases. There are only a few hundred doctors in Russia specializing in chemical aetiological diseases - they will not be able to help those affected by environmental pollution. As for ecology, as a factor of influence on human health, when assessing the degree of its influence, it is important to consider the extent of environmental pollution:
global environmental pollution is a disaster for the whole of human society, but for one individual it does not pose a particular danger;
regional environmental pollution is a disaster for the inhabitants of the region, but in most cases it is not very dangerous for the health of one particular person;
local environmental pollution - represents a serious danger to the health of the population of a particular city / district as a whole, and for each individual inhabitant of this area. Following this logic, it is easy to determine that the dependence of human health on the air pollution of a particular street on which it lives is even higher than on the pollution of the area as a whole. However, the ecology of his home and workplace has the strongest impact on human health. After all, we spend about 80% of our time in buildings. And the air in the rooms is usually dry, there is a significant concentration of chemical pollutants: according to the content of radioactive radon - 10 times (on the first floors and basements - perhaps hundreds of times); by air ion composition - by 5–10 times.
Thus, for human health is extremely important:
on which floor he lives (on the first one, the probability of exposure to radioactive radon is higher),
what material his house is made of (natural or artificial),
what stove he uses (gas or electric),
what the floor in his apartment / house is covered with (linoleum, carpets or a less harmful material);
what the furniture is made of (SP contains phenols);
whether houseplants are present in the dwelling, and in what quantity.
Atmospheric air is one of the main vital elements of our environment. During the day, a person inhales about 12-15 m3 of oxygen, and emits about 580 liters of carbon dioxide.
Children living near powerful power stations that are not equipped with dust collectors show changes in the lungs that are similar to forms of silicosis. Dust containing oxides of silicon causes a severe lung disease, silicosis. Greater pollution of the air with smoke and soot, which lasts for several days, can cause poisoning of people with a fatal outcome. Particularly detrimental to human pollution of the atmosphere in cases where meteorological conditions contribute to the stagnation of air over the city.
The harmful substances in the atmosphere affect the human body upon contact with the skin or mucous membrane. This happens when a sweating person (with open pores) in the summer goes on a gassed and dusty street. If, having reached the house, he does not immediately take a warm (not hot!) Shower, the harmful substances have a chance to penetrate deep into his body.
Along with the respiratory system, pollutants affect the organs of sight and smell, and by acting on the mucous membrane of the larynx, they can cause spasms of the vocal cords. Inhaled solid and liquid particles with sizes of 0.6-1.0 microns reach the alveoli and are absorbed in the blood, some accumulate in the lymph nodes.
Contaminated air irritates most of the respiratory tract, causing bronchitis, emphysema, asthma. The stimuli that cause these diseases include SO2 and SO3, nitrogenous vapors, HCl, HNO3, H2SO4, H2S, phosphorus, and its compounds. Studies in the UK have shown a very close relationship between atmospheric pollution and mortality from bronchitis.
Signs and effects of airborne pollutants on the human body are manifested mostly in the deterioration of general health: headaches, nausea, feeling of weakness appear, the ability to work decreases or is lost.
It can be concluded that the largest number of pollutants enters the human body through the lungs. Indeed, most researchers confirm that every day with 15 kg of inhaled air, more harmful substances penetrate into the human body than with water, food, from dirty hands, through the skin. In this case, the inhalation route of entry of pollutants into the body is also the most dangerous. Due to the fact that:
the air is polluted with a wide range of harmful substances, some of which are able to exacerbate the harmful effects of each other;
pollution, entering the body through the respiratory tract, bypass such a protective biochemical barrier like the liver - as a result, their toxic effects are 100 times stronger than the effects of pollutants penetrating through the gastrointestinal tract;
the digestibility of harmful substances entering the body through the lungs is much higher than pollutants penetrating with food and water;
it is difficult to hide from atmospheric pollutants: they affect human health 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
People tend to blame their diseases on radiation and the harmful effects of other environmental pollutants. However, the impact of ecology on human health in Russia today is only 25–50% of the total of all influencing factors. And only in 30–40 years, according to experts, the dependence of the physical condition and well-being of citizens of the Russian Federation on the environment will increase to 50–70%.
The greatest impact on the health of Russians has a lifestyle that they lead (50%). Among the components of this factor:
nature of power,
good and bad habits
physical activity,
neuropsychiatric condition (stress, depression, etc.).
Ecology (25%) is on the second place according to the degree of influence on human health, heredity is on the third place, which makes up as much as 20%. The remaining 5% comes from medicine. However, there are cases when the effect of several of these 4 factors of influence on human health overlap each other.
First example: medicine is practically powerless when it comes to eco-dependent diseases. There are only a few hundred doctors in Russia specializing in chemical aetiological diseases - they will not be able to help those affected by environmental pollution. As for ecology, as a factor of influence on human health, when assessing the degree of its influence, it is important to consider the extent of environmental pollution:
global environmental pollution is a disaster for the whole of human society, but for one individual it does not pose a particular danger;
regional environmental pollution is a disaster for the inhabitants of the region, but in most cases it is not very dangerous for the health of one particular person;
local environmental pollution - represents a serious danger to the health of the population of a particular city / district as a whole, and for each individual inhabitant of this area. Following this logic, it is easy to determine that the dependence of human health on the air pollution of a particular street on which it lives is even higher than on the pollution of the area as a whole. However, the ecology of his home and workplace has the strongest impact on human health. After all, we spend about 80% of our time in buildings. And the air in the rooms is usually dry, there is a significant concentration of chemical pollutants: according to the content of radioactive radon - 10 times (on the first floors and basements - perhaps hundreds of times); by air ion composition - by 5–10 times.
Thus, for human health is extremely important:
on which floor he lives (on the first one, the probability of exposure to radioactive radon is higher),
what material his house is made of (natural or artificial),
what stove he uses (gas or electric),
what the floor in his apartment / house is covered with (linoleum, carpets or a less harmful material);
what the furniture is made of (SP contains phenols);
whether houseplants are present in the dwelling, and in what quantity.
Atmospheric air is one of the main vital elements of our environment. During the day, a person inhales about 12-15 m3 of oxygen, and emits about 580 liters of carbon dioxide.
Children living near powerful power stations that are not equipped with dust collectors show changes in the lungs that are similar to forms of silicosis. Dust containing oxides of silicon causes a severe lung disease, silicosis. Greater pollution of the air with smoke and soot, which lasts for several days, can cause poisoning of people with a fatal outcome. Particularly detrimental to human pollution of the atmosphere in cases where meteorological conditions contribute to the stagnation of air over the city.
The harmful substances in the atmosphere affect the human body upon contact with the skin or mucous membrane. This happens when a sweating person (with open pores) in the summer goes on a gassed and dusty street. If, having reached the house, he does not immediately take a warm (not hot!) Shower, the harmful substances have a chance to penetrate deep into his body.
Along with the respiratory system, pollutants affect the organs of sight and smell, and by acting on the mucous membrane of the larynx, they can cause spasms of the vocal cords. Inhaled solid and liquid particles with sizes of 0.6-1.0 microns reach the alveoli and are absorbed in the blood, some accumulate in the lymph nodes.
Contaminated air irritates most of the respiratory tract, causing bronchitis, emphysema, asthma. The stimuli that cause these diseases include SO2 and SO3, nitrogenous vapors, HCl, HNO3, H2SO4, H2S, phosphorus, and its compounds. Studies in the UK have shown a very close relationship between atmospheric pollution and mortality from bronchitis.
Signs and effects of airborne pollutants on the human body are manifested mostly in the deterioration of general health: headaches, nausea, feeling of weakness appear, the ability to work decreases or is lost.
It can be concluded that the largest number of pollutants enters the human body through the lungs. Indeed, most researchers confirm that every day with 15 kg of inhaled air, more harmful substances penetrate into the human body than with water, food, from dirty hands, through the skin. In this case, the inhalation route of entry of pollutants into the body is also the most dangerous. Due to the fact that:
the air is polluted with a wide range of harmful substances, some of which are able to exacerbate the harmful effects of each other;
pollution, entering the body through the respiratory tract, bypass such a protective biochemical barrier like the liver - as a result, their toxic effects are 100 times stronger than the effects of pollutants penetrating through the gastrointestinal tract;
the digestibility of harmful substances entering the body through the lungs is much higher than pollutants penetrating with food and water;
it is difficult to hide from atmospheric pollutants: they affect human health 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Environmental Impact on Human Health
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June 10, 2019
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