The Environment and Our Health 🌍👩‍⚕️

The Environment and Our Health

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What do you understand by the Word "Environment"?

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Our environment is a collection of everything around us like the physical things from nature, the man made components, including the social and cultural aspect of our environment.

_{Our environment is everything around us}
The physical component
This includes land, it's texture and formation, the air, the water, the vergetation, animal life. the "fauna" and "flora" of a particular place

The man made components
Like the roads, house, farms, bridges and other things made by man.

The social aspect of environment
How we interact with the physical environment, how natural resources like water, land or air are utilized, how we manage, treat and dispose our waste products, how we view our environment.

The cultural aspect of environment
This covers our believe system, values and tradition that influences the way we react with our surroundings, the things we hold sacred and those we protect, it also includes stories, myths, rituals and practices that affect the way we deal with nature.

How do our surroundings impact our well-being?

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Our surroundings always has huge impact on our physical and mental well-being

_{we love clean environment}
We are naturally attracted to the greenery of a well groomed park, such beautiful scenery has a calming effect on us, and is able to bring down your stress levels and boosting your mood.
On the other hand, take a look at this picture and observe the feelings it creates in you.

_{Poor surrounding invoke bad feelings}
Noise, air pollution and living in a crowded city can be stressful and related to poor physical and mental health.
Our surroundings really has effects on us.

What are some ways pollution, like air or water pollution, can affect our health?

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Once the quality of Air we breathe is polluted by vehicles, power plants, industrial facilities, and even wildfires, it can make is sick with respiratory problems or cardiovascular problems or some type of cancer or long infection. Contaminated water has also been equally damaging.

What are some simple actions you take every day to promote environmental health?

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I try to generate less waste, and the waste from my house are sorted to ease recycling of the recyclables, and the re-use of items that can be re-used. This reduces the need to make more of this materials when they could be reused.
I advocate for the use of energy that is clean and environmentally friendly like solar power.

_{Solar power is clean for our environment}

How can education and awareness play a role in promoting environmental health?

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Some people are ignorant of the fact that our environment is responding to what we do, some religion and culture has this element that requires that the environment be protected against exploitation.

People need to know that there is another way of going about our daily activities that do not have negative effects on the environment.

Schools should have it in their curriculum, kids should understand the issue of global warming, it's course, effects and what could be done to reverse it.

Such education will go a long way to help protect our environment and keep it safe for our children.

Conclusion

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One of The best gift we can give our children and grand children is an environment that is friendly for them to live in. Not one that has been polluted and made harmful to life and unfit for agriculture.

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