The Impact of Air particles on Human Health.
Nitrogen Dioxyde pollution can ahhravate respiratory diseases particularly ashma.
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Safe environments and health
Whether in the home, the community, or the wider environment, health risks resulting from people’s unsafe living conditions proliferate. Three billion people – 40 per cent of the world’s population – have no facilities at home to wash their hand s with water and soap. Nearly half of all schools have no handwashing facilities with water and soap, affecting 900 million school-age children, and 43% of health care settings have no hand hygiene facilities at points of care where patients are treated. Social disadvantage increases the likelihood that someone will be exposed to violence in their family or community , directly or indirectly as a witness. In turn, violence – and the poorer health that results from exposure to it can exacerbate social disadvantage. Currently, over 7 million people a year die from exposure to air pollution – 1 in 8 of all deaths. Over 90% of people breathe outdoor air with pollution levels exceeding WHO air quali...
What causes health inequities?
Health and illness follow a social gradient – the lower a person’s socioeconomic position, the worse their chances for health. This downward slope is the product of the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, and their access to power, resources and decision-making (the “ social determinants ofhealth ”). These conditions include a person’s education ; income ; access to social protection (e.g. affordable child services, sickness pay, unemployment protection; and pensions); access to quality health services and good nutrition; access to healthy housing and clean air ; and to financial and judicial services. The quality of these conditions is often made worse by discrimination, stereotyping, and prejudice, which most often affect women and girls, older people, people with disability, or are based on race, ethnicity or sexual identity. Such discrimination occurs not only between individuals, but is often embedded within our institutions and systems, l...