I found this at Wikipedia and hope it is of some help:
Industrialisation has spawned its own health problems.
Modern stressors include noise, air, water pollution, poor nutrition, dangerous machinery, impersonal work, isolation, poverty, homelessness, and substance abuse.
Health problems in industrial nations are as much caused by economic, social, political, and cultural factors as by pathogens. Industrialisation has become a major medical issue world wide, and hopefully will become less of a problem over the upcoming years.
and (Iam not fully sure what this means but hope you can):
The currently prevailing "development paradigm" in the international development community (which means the World Bank, OECD, many United Nations departments and some other such organisations) is poverty reduction, which pays attention to economic growth as such, but does not recognise traditional industrialisation policies as being beneficial in the longer term (with the perception that it simply creates inefficient local industry that is useless in a free-trade dominated world).
The site below has an article on the "long-term air pollution and health" from industrialisation:
http://users.hol.gr/~bio/HTML/PUBS/VOL1/malberg.htm
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