early as the 18th century, people lived in harmony with nature.But since the late 19th century, between the people and the environment emerged and began to develop an imbalance.And the reason for this is the work of people, their impact on the biosphere.And to date, the amount of this influence has become higher than the permissible 8-10 times.In practice, there is a destruction of biological and ecological systems of the earth.But man is a child of this planet, in the same product of nature, like the other inhabitants of the Earth.And so the environment and human health are interrelated things.And when you change the environment changes accordingly and the health of all mankind.For new diseases, which are becoming more and more every day are derived from the environment.
At its core is a synthetic human health category.It includes not only physiological, but also psychological, moral and intellectual components.It can be concluded that patients are not only those people who have physical defects or chronic diseases, and people with unstable mentality, weak intellect or moral pathology.Therefore, environmental impact on human health is composed of several factors that determine the quality of the environment.
These include geophysical factors.First and foremost is the climate of a particular region.It is a component of the atmospheric pressure.It depends on the height of a particular location.It also includes the concept of dry air and the degree of its dust.Even the definition of climate includes the duration and intensity of sunshine, temperature changes, and solar radiation intensity.
There also is a category of both geochemical factors.Environmental and human health, respectively, depend on them.These include a lack of iron in the soil or iodine in water.Also, in many regions of the settlements are located near processing plants, which are connected with the production of such chemicals as mercury, arsenic, lead, bismuth and the like.
And in the category of biotic factors include effects on human different allergens and toxins of animal and vegetable origin.Even in this category is the presence in the region of useful plants and animals, or vice versa, the effect of pathogenic organisms.
But the regional environmental problems do not end there.The serious impact on human health and have a catastrophic natural phenomena and processes.It earthquakes, floods, droughts and landslides.Also, any environmental pollution adversely affect the human body.Scientists estimate that the average person drinks every day about two liters of water and breathe more than nine kilograms of air.And through the medium of his body gets the most harmful substances.No wonder the diseases that are associated with the respiratory system, is now becoming more and more.But most of all they are children, whose immune system has not had time to get stronger.
And the worst is that the environment and human health are already connected before the birth of the latter.If you take the statistics of Ukraine, the 70% of pregnant women currently have abnormalities in their health status.And the proportion of infants who have physical or neurological disorders has now grown to 20%.Their incidence in the last five years has increased by 2.5 times.And if 20 years ago to serve in the army were not good, only a few, now only 20% of boys are considered to be unfit for military service.And among women the situation is not the best.Two thirds of them also did not differ in perfect health.
So now the environment and human health will melt priority issues in many countries.And the threat of physical and mental development of people may soon become a threat to the survival of humanity.Fairly "tainted" the environment has on people today is the negative impact that it increasingly destroys its genotype and causes significant damage to the national gene pool of many nations.
But environmental problem does not exist in pure form.It is directly linked to the economy, politics, new technologies and culture of mankind.The sooner people realize the importance of this problem, the easier it will be able to solve it.
