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Topic: environment and health

Natural resources are gift to human life. Good conditions of air, water, soil and biodiversity enhances our health and wellbeing. When these resources degrade, it ultimately results into ill health, morbidity and shortening of life span
Environmental Health is the branch of public health concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment affecting human health. Environmental health focuses on the natural and built environments for the benefit of human health
Industrialization and consumerism are main causes of natural resources pollution. The destruction of natural habitat by pollution affects agriculture, animal husbandry, aquatic flora and fauna. Increasing malnutrition, poverty etc.
The main reason of selecting this topic is to represent the importance of environment on human health aswell as portray the significance of environmental pollution and finding ways to reduce them
Environmental health was defined in a 1989 document by the World Health Organization (WHO) as: Those aspects of the human health and disease that are determined by factors in the environment. It also refers to the theory and practice of assessing and controlling factors in the environment that can potentially affect health. Environmental health as used by the WHO Regional Office for Europe, includes both the direct pathological effects of chemicals, radiation and some biological agents, and the effects (often indirect) on health and well being of the broad physical, psychological, social and cultural environment, which includes housing, urban development, land use and transport.Five basic disciplines generally contribute to the field of environmental health: environmental epidemiology, toxicology, exposure science, environmental engineering, and environmental law