Ecological factors affecting health and well-being
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| Exhaustion of natural resources e.g. water, land, food |
- Water scarcity：affect personal hygiene
- Food scarcity: nutrition
- Food and water-born diseases due to improper heating of food and water
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| Global warming |
- Alter the pattern of exposure of vector-borne infections include malaria and dengue fever
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| Forms of Pollution and their impact on health |
- Chemical – some toxic substances accumulated in various tissues and organs in different body systems
- Radiation – risks of anemia and cancer
- Water - transmitting pathogens causing typhoid fever, dysentery, cholera and parasitic worms
- Noise – damage of hearing, neurasthenia
- Air - respiratory illnesses such as asthma, pneumonia, and bronchitis
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| Natural disasters |
- Physical – Physical injury, Deficiency in nutrition, infectious diseases due to crowding of survivors
- Mental – Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
- Social - breakdown of social network in some cases
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Actions at different levels
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| Individual |
Personal roles in protecting the environment |
- e.g. resource conservation, 3R - reduce, reuse and recycle
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| Society |
Government roles in the protecting the environment |
- e.g. legislation, promotion such as campaigns related to cleanliness and hygiene
- Control of pollutants, industrial waste, food safety, etc.
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| Global |
Relationships between developed and developing nations and societies |
- Example(1): Emission of Carbon Dioxide
- Example(2): Electronic Wastes
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| The WHO approach to health promotion and illness prevention |
- The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion - fundamental conditions and resources for health are peace, shelter, education, food, income, a stable ecosystem, sustainable resources, social justice and equity
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