THE IMPACT OF URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON HUMAN HEALTH

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Lebedeva
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Human Health ◽  
The Impact

A review of the impact of outdoor and indoor environmental factors on human health in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (34) ◽  
pp. 42335-42345
Author(s):  
Yuxia Ma ◽  
Yifan Zhang ◽  
Bowen Cheng ◽  
Fengliu Feng ◽  
Haoran Jiao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Human Health ◽  
The Impact

Nuclear-physical analysis methods in medical geology: Assessment of the impact of environmental factors on human health

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 424-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. V. Gorbunov ◽  
S. M. Lyapunov ◽  
O. I. Okina ◽  
M. V. Frontas’eva ◽  
S. S. Pavlov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Physical Analysis ◽  
Medical Geology ◽  
Analysis Methods ◽  
The Impact

Environmental Health

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark F. Miller ◽  
Kelly J. Chandler ◽  
Linda S. Birnbaum
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Human Disease ◽  
Disease Incidence ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Toxic Heavy Metals ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Impact

Each day people are exposed to a wide variety of agents and stressors that have the potential to impact human health and well-being. Environmental health is the study of those environmental factors and how they may contribute to human health and disease. An individual’s environment is one of the most important contributors to one’s overall wellness and quality of life. Environmental factors play a role in at least 85 percent of all human diseases. More importantly, an individual’s environment is the most easily modified aspect of one’s overall health. Understanding the impact of the external environment, how it interacts with biological processes, and what can be done to eliminate or mitigate negative effects provides better protection for human populations from deleterious health outcomes. Traditionally, science has looked at environmental factors by using a risk-based approach. In this model, information on an agent’s potential to cause harm, as depicted by a dose-response relationship for a given adverse effect, is integrated with an individual’s potential to be exposed to that hazard in order to characterize the likelihood and severity of health risk. As we move into a new era of environmental-health research, scientists are thinking about environmental impacts on human health in new ways. It’s no longer as simple as “the dose makes the poison,” where high doses of a chemical are bad and lower doses are not as bad. While there are still many instances of high-concentration exposures to toxic heavy metals, pesticides, or other substances, a new understanding of how low-level exposures contribute to the development of common disorders such as diabetes, developmental delays, and other modern epidemics is changing the traditional paradigm of toxicology. Timing of exposure during fetal and early-childhood development, mixture effects from combined exposures, impacts on genetic and epigenetic gene regulation, and individual human susceptibilities can result in increased disease incidence or severity. Further, these effects are seen not only in exposed individuals, but also in their direct offspring and potentially subsequent generations. The study of environmental health provides opportunities to mitigate or prevent a wide range of human disease and disability from an individual, community, and policy perspective. We can’t change our genes, but we can change our environment, behaviors, and exposures. This article describes the ways we are exposed to stressors in our environment, the primary fields that contribute to our understanding of environmental health, and some emerging issues that require 21st-century approaches to promoting healthy environments and preventing human disease.

scholarly journals The Impact of Nutrition and Environmental Epigenetics on Human Health and Disease

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (11) ◽  
pp. 3425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Céline Tiffon
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Disease Risk ◽  
Cellular Level ◽  
Epigenetic Modifications ◽  
Environmental Signals ◽  
Environmental Epigenetics ◽  
Health And Disease ◽  
Potential Strategy ◽  
The Impact

Environmental epigenetics describes how environmental factors affect cellular epigenetics and, hence, human health. Epigenetic marks alter the spatial conformation of chromatin to regulate gene expression. Environmental factors with epigenetic effects include behaviors, nutrition, and chemicals and industrial pollutants. Epigenetic mechanisms are also implicated during development in utero and at the cellular level, so environmental exposures may harm the fetus by impairing the epigenome of the developing organism to modify disease risk later in life. By contrast, bioactive food components may trigger protective epigenetic modifications throughout life, with early life nutrition being particularly important. Beyond their genetics, the overall health status of an individual may be regarded as an integration of many environmental signals starting at gestation and acting through epigenetic modifications. This review explores how the environment affects the epigenome in health and disease, with a particular focus on cancer. Understanding the molecular effects of behavior, nutrients, and pollutants might be relevant for developing preventative strategies and personalized heath programs. Furthermore, by restoring cellular differentiation, epigenetic drugs could represent a potential strategy for the treatment of many diseases including cancer.

Influence of ecological abiotic factors on human health

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (9) ◽  
pp. 48-51
Author(s):  
Firangiz Agadadash Jabrailova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Abiotic Factors ◽  
The Impact

The article considers the medical environmental assessment of the effects of abiotic factors on human health, as well as analyzes the impact of extreme environmental factors on the prevalence of disease. It is explained that rhythmic changes in the natural environment cause the spread of different diseases among people. Key words: abiotic, photosynthesis, radiation, electromagnetic, meteorological, meteoneurosis, aerophobia

THE IMPACT OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES ON ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 399-403
Author(s):  
Petrișor PĂTRAȘCU
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Critical Infrastructures ◽  
Considerable Effort ◽  
Chain Reaction ◽  
The World ◽  
Water And Soil Pollution ◽  
The Impact

Abstract: The usefulness of critical infrastructure is identified by the goods produced and services provided to society, with great efforts, including the protection of the environment and human health. In this article, the impact of critical infrastructures on the environment is examined from the perspective of environmental factors. Thus, the impact of critical infrastructures on the main environmental factors is examined from the perspective of air, water and soil pollution. Nowadays, the effects of environmental factors, including those produced by critical infrastructure, were seen most strongly in both climate change and the human health. This shows a series of chain reaction effects on nature, plants, animals and people around the world. The endeavor of several states and relevant organizations consists in the considerable effort to mitigate these effects.

Assessing the sustainability of the Siberian Federal District regions

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 891-908
Author(s):  
T.A. Smirnova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Siberian Federal District ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Empirical Analyses

Subject. This article deals with the issues of functioning of the region as a system. Objectives. The article aims to identify the problems of the region's functioning as a system, develop methodological tools to monitor the sustainable development of the Siberian Federal District territories, and determine the the impact of socio-economic and environmental factors on the sustainable development of the region as a whole. Methods. For the study, I used the methods of theoretical, statistical, and empirical analyses taking into account an integrated approach. Results. The article reveals the impact of some individual components of regional development on the sustainability of the territorial system as a whole. Relevance. The results of the study can be used to analyze the sustainability of regions' development.

Directions of Accounting Environmental Factors for Forecasting Formation of Agroecosystems

2020 ◽  
pp. 31-35
Author(s):  
L.Z. Khalishkhova ◽  
◽  
A. Kh. Temrokova ◽  
I.R. Guchapsheva ◽  
K.A. Bogаtyreva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Logical Analysis ◽  
Management Decisions ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Impact

Ensuring the sustainable development of agroecosystems requires research into the justification of the impact of environmental factors on the formation of territorial agroecosystems and identifies ways to take them into account in order to justify management decisions and ensure environmental safety. The main goal of the research within the article is to identify the most significant environmental factors in predicting the formation of agroecosystems. Provisions are devoted to the study of the laws governing the functioning of agroecosystems in order to increase their stability. The methods of comparative analysis, generalization, abstraction, logical analysis are applied. A number of provisions are formulated regarding ways to account for the influence of factors on the formation of key elements of agroecosystems.

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