Concept of Environmental Health

Introduction :

The environment is the place where we can find the number of living things and a number of non-living things. The things like forest, water , land ,plants and animals etc are present in the environment. They are said to be the components of the environment. Whereas the physical, biological and socio-cultural health of an environment is known as environmental health.

The environment is the place where people show their overall life cycle. We human beings cannot imagine our life without proper environment. According to UN from 1972 AD, 5, of June is celebrated as the World Environmental day. According to WHO, "environmental health refers to those aspects of human health and disease that are determined by the factors in the environmental. "As of 2016 the WHO website on environmental health states". Environmental health addresses all the physical, chemical, and biological factors external to a person, and all the related factors impacting behaviors. It encompasses the assessment and control of those environmental factors that can potentially affect health. It is targeted towards preventing disease and creating health-supportive environments. This definition excludes behaviour not related to the environment, as well as behavior related to the social and cultural environment, as well as genetics."

All the living creatures depend on upon the environment. If the environment good then the people will be healthy but if the environment will be dirty or polluted then people will be sick or unhealthy. Environmental health mainly affects everyone. The environmental health always looks the health of an individual. It also helps to his quality of life of the people. There are various area under which environmental health. Some of them are as follow:

• there should de management of housing
• the personal hygiene should be maintained properly
• the environment should be clean and healthy
• the supply of proper and safe drinking water

Environmental Pollution and Management of Pollution

All the people are directly or indirectlyrelated to the environment.People they started doing different types of activities inside the environment. Due to the modernization people they started to do development in the environment. People they do unmanaged development due to which the environment started to pollute. Because of unmanaged Industrialization, unplanned urbanization etc affect the environment directly or indirectly.

Due to these all activities slow environment, it started to be polluted and the environment it started to be unbalanced. Which cause water pollution, Acid rain, Climate change etc. not only this due to the pollution of environment different types of bacteria, diseases . fungi etc began to grow more and more which affect the human life.

Introduction to Environmental Pollution

A population is growing more and more. Due to the over population people they started to destroy the natural resources which are affecting

the environment of the earth. As we know we need food to eat, we need clothes to wear, we need a house for shelter etc to fulfill these all need we started to destroy the environment. People they started to make big building, big industry, many transportations etc so the pollution caused by this substance are called pollution. Due to these all things water, air, land, and sound pollution began to start. Which also directly or indirectly affect the people or the health of the people.

Important of Environmental Health

Environmental health is very important for everyone because it helps make people aware of different types of pollution or different of bad effect which they see after development. Following are some important points of environmental health :

• It helps to make responsible for controlling pollution.
• It helps to balance the environment.
• It helps to make people aware of different pollution.
• It helps to prevent the pollution borne disease.

Measures to Maintain Environmental Health in Family and School:

• They should keep their surrounding clean.
• They should do proper management of wastage materials from the house and school.

  

• They should do proper cleanness of the toilets .
• They should plantation of trees around the school and the houses.