HS303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Indoor Air Quality, Environmental Health, Carrying Capacity
Document Summary
Advances the range of disease-carrying insects, bringing them into new geographical areas. May result in a worldwide population of 10-12 billion. May exceed the carrying capacity by a factor of 2. Their immune systems and detoxifying organs are still developing. Developing countries suffer far more from problems associated with environmental degradation. They are highly industrialized and disseminate vast quantities of pollutants into the environment from industrial process and motors. Environmental hazards such as water contamination, air pollution, unsanitary food, and crowding take a steep toll in both morbidity and mortality. Characterizes changes in environmental risks that happen a consequence of economic development in less-developed regions of the world. Household risks caused by poor food, air, and water quality tend to dominate. Acute respiratory diseases from poor housing and indoor air pollution. Human population threatens to overwhelm available resources. The human population has grown exponentially over the past 200 years and reach 6 billion in june 1999.
