what are 5 major diseases caused due to environment?

Question

I have to present a project on this.please help me

Answer 1

Health hazards associated with exposure to toxic chemicals are usually summarized on Material Safety Data Sheets.

But, here is a listing:

Liver and Kidney Damage, Respiratory difficulty, death, cancer, drowsiness, dizziness, rapid heart beat, nausea, headache, shortness of breath, unconsciousness, drying and cracking of the skin, pelvic cancer, bladder cancer, bluish coloration of lips and extremities. Damage to red blood cells, urinary tract, skin, diarrhea, lack of appetite, mental disturbances, liver damage, skin irritation, anemia, jaundice, heart damage, damage to lungs, pulmonary edema, back pains, chills, fainting, stomach pain. Slurred speech, pneunomia, leukemia,....

Dependent upon what chemical you are exposed to, the length of exposure, whether it is injested, or absorbed,....

Answer 2

I would really say that mostly respitory diseases are caused due to the enviroment. Things like Pneumonia, Asthma and Alergies. I am not a doctor, but I think that those things are problems, that a person has and enviromental factors cause them to get worse. Like Asthma and Allergies. If the pollen count is high then people's allergies flare up and get worse. There is nothing that we can do about things like pollen count. That is an eviromental factor.

I am not a doctor, but my theory is that Allegies are more prevelant these days then they used to be because we are all inside all day breathing sterile air. You see 150 years ago most people worked out doors. You opened the windows on your home or school in the summer when it was cold- many people did not even have glass windows- just shutters. Homes were heated with open fireplaces, which must have released some soot into homes and other buildings. People were used to breathing in that air, their bodies were used to the pollens and the smoke and the dust and everything else in the enviroment. Mothers did not have Lysol in those days. She was not able to sterilize every surface in her home. I think that people just built up an immunity to those things.

Now days, we all have allergies and Asthma. But we spend our time inside air conditioned buildings. Many schools and office buildings have windows that don't even open. The only air we breath is from the air conditioner and Furnace, they have filters to filter out the bad stuff. So we are not breathing fresh air, our bodies aren't used to that. The other down side of windows that don't open is that the bad air gets trapped in the building. When people come to school or work sick, then they breathe that into the air, and everybody breathes that in and they get sick- That is why there is always "something" going around the office or school. If we could open the windows and air the place out, then we would be much better off. But really I think the biggest reason that there are so many people with allergies and Asthma is that we don't breathe fresh air as much as we should. We spend our days and nights indoors and don't build up antibodies to the things that are naturally in the air. Have you ever met a farmer or a construction worker with Allergies? Wierd, they spend their days outside, but the fresh air, does not seem to affect them the same as it affects office workers. That is just my theory, but I think that it makes a lot of sense.

Answer 3

Do you mean caused by problems in the environment, like pollution? Or, do you mean caused by normal conditions?

1. skin cancer - and it is increasing in the world as UV gets more intense.

2, allergies and respiratory disease - especially in poor countries where air pollution laws are not very strict and the air pollution is unbelievable - just ask anyone who has been to China lately.

3. tropical diseases - as the climate warms the vectors (insects that carry disease) can live in larger and large areas, so they can infect more and more people. It is pretty likely that malaria, yellow fever and other tropical diseases could be more of a problem in the future.

4. toxins in the environment - so, some areas are contaminated with mercury. Eating fish from those areas causes very severe nerve damage. Look up Minimata disease. Also, foods contaminated with pesticides probably cause a pretty large number of cancer deaths.

5. I leave one for you to find.

Answer 4

Polluted environment may cause diseases but environment unless it is interrupted will never cause any diseases. Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Noise Pollution, Soil Pollution, Deforestation, Natural sources depletion and so on. Try these

Answer 5

Let's not forget cancer. Fewer ozone particles filtering out UVAs and UVBs!

Answer 6

allergey, due to water pollution minamata disease ,due to air pollution asthma

Answer 7

NONE