Earth Sciences 2250Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Kyoto Protocol, Venomous Snake, World Health Organization
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Your environment is your health, but not the only factor influencing your health. Genetic material can influence our health; influences what we are immune and weak to. According to who (world health organization): in the broadest sense, environmental health comprise those aspects of human health, diseases and injuries that are determined or influenced by factors in the environment. What are some of the factors in the environment that influence our health: there are direct and indirect factors : chemical (e. g. organic and inorganic) Physical social factors (e. g. housing, urban development, land use and transportation) It is everything that affects a living organism (e. g. wolf, bird, plants) Compartments of environment that affect human health are: air, water, soil, manmade developments. Humans have changed and disturbed the environment in various ways. Human population and consumption of resources resulted in the alteration of earth substantially and growing. Some suggest 80% of the earth"s surface has been altered by human forces.