Authors : Shende V.A. and Patil K. G.
Page Nos : 51-55
Description :
People are mainly suffering from ill
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health are caused by environmental hazards.
Environmental diseases are often found in the near home surrounding.
Poor people have less possibilities
to protect
themselves from bad quality of water, bad sanitation or indoor
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air pollution. Health problems
include environmental hazards posed by biological agents, exacerbated by poor sanitation, lack of safe
water, smoky kitchens, and crowded dwellings in garbage
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st
rewn neighborhoods. Environmental changes
directly or indirectly show effects on human health. The direct impact on human health due to
occurrence of UV rays, heat waves, floods, droughts and fires; and changes in temperature and
precipitation. Indirect im
pacts on human health are due to ecological disruptions, rising sea level,
changing temperatures and precipitation patterns which leads to crop failures, shifting patterns of
disease vectors, water
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borne disease, vector
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borne disease. The complexities of i
nteractions between
environment and host are the vector borne diseases. Biodiversity is under significant threat from the
effects of human
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induced climate. Its loss is threatening the fulfillment of basic needs and aspiration of
humanity as a whole. If we
carry on losing biodiversity, future generations face hunger, thirst, disease
and disaster.
