GEO 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Environmental Health, Dementia, Execution Unit
17 Sep 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Geo 210 lecture 2 jan 19 2017, jan 20 2017 mortality. In addition, the top 14 catastrophes were also mapped looking a its area of damage and i(cid:374)su(cid:396)ed losses (cid:894) . (cid:895) It was also revealed that several streets in london exceeded the annual limits for nitrogen dioxide emissions just a few days into 2016 (cid:862)ai(cid:396) pollutio(cid:374) leads to (cid:272)h(cid:396)o(cid:374)i(cid:272) disease (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h (cid:396)e(cid:395)uire hospital space. Before we knew that pollution was responsible for diseases like pneumonia and asthma. Now we known that it leafs to bloodstream, heart and cardiovascular diseases, too even dementia. These are chronic disease that require hospital beds. The cost will be enormous: according to the un, there are now 3,3 million premature deaths every year from air pollution, about three quarters of which are from strokes and heart attacks. It also had considerable economic impacts, increasing medical costs and (cid:396)edu(cid:272)i(cid:374)g p(cid:396)odu(cid:272)ti(cid:448)ity. (cid:863: we know that in china, 400 people a day die of air pollution.
