EESA10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Trans-Cultural Diffusion, Global Health, Anthropocene

• School: UTSC
• Department: Environmental Science
• Course: EESA10H3
• Professor: Silvija Stefanovic

Document Summary

Global changes around the world are fundamentally influencing patterns of human health, international health care and public health activities. Increasingly systematic environmental impact of many economic activities urbanization and widening gap between rich and poor countries. I(cid:374) re(cid:272)e(cid:374)t de(cid:272)ades" i(cid:374)ter(cid:374)atio(cid:374)al (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:272)tivity has i(cid:374)(cid:272)reased o(cid:374) (cid:373)a(cid:374)y fa(cid:272)ts i(cid:374)(cid:272)ludi(cid:374)g the flow of information movement of people trading patterns the flow of capital and cultural diffusion. This increase and demographic, economic and commercial and environmental indexes have been labeled the great acceleration. Remarkably the resultant and environmental effects are now altering major components of the earth system. The loss of biodiversity the greatly amplified global circulation of bioactive nitrogen compounds and human induced climate change have already reached levels that are apparently unsafe. These changes post fundamental threats to human well-being and health. Fees human induced climate changes often act in concert with environmental demographic and social stressors that variously influence regional food yields nutrition and health.