Chapter 13: environmental

health, pollution and toxicology.

BY: ALIG WILFREDO JR R.
 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
 Branch of public health that focuses on
understanding and managing the impact
of our environment on human health.
 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
 Work with the government to regulates and set an amount
of level of emissions and pollutions
 Monitors- environmental conditions and test for
contaminants.
 Educate the public and spread awareness.
 Research - to better understand the relations of
environmental contaminants and human health.
 Why environmental health is important.

 We depend in our environment to sustain life.

 Reduce risk of diseases
Pollution
 Pollution

• Are harmful substances that contaminate and harm

the environment.
• Air pollutions
• Land pollutions
• Water pollutions
• Noise pollutions
Air pollutions
 Air pollutions
 Is the contamination of the indoor or the outdoor
environment by any chemical or physical or biological
agent that modifies the natural characteristics of the
atmosphere.
Cause of Air pollutions
 Burning of fossil fuels
Cause of Air pollutions
 industrial emissions
Cause of Air pollutions
 forest fires
Cause of Air pollutions
 Agricultures
Cause of Air pollutions
 Allergens
Cause of Air pollutions
 Volcanic eruptions
 Cause of Air pollutions
 Burning of fossil fuels
 industrial emissions
 forest fires
 Agricultures
 Allergens
 Volcanic eruptions
 Effects of Air pollutions
 Chronic diseases
 Birth defects
 Global warming
Land pollution
 Land pollution
The destruction or a decline in quality of the earths
surface as a result of human actions.
 Cause of Land pollution
 Deforestation
 Acid rain
 Radioactive wastes
 Litter
 Deforestation
 Decrease in forest areas across the world
 Agriculture
 Illegal logging
 Urbanization
 Mining
 Effects of Deforestation
 Contributes to climate change
 Soil degradation
 Flooding
 Land slides
 Loss of natural habitats
 Affects the indigenous peoples
 Solutions to Deforestation
 Reforestation
 Support environmental campaigns
 Educate others
 Help the DENR or Department of Environment and Natural
resources.
Water pollution
Occurs when harmful
substances such as
chemicals and other
micro organisms
contaminates a body
of water.
 Example of water pollutions
 Organic and inorganic pollutants
 Pathogens
 Suspended solids
 Agriculture pollutants
 Radioactive pollutants
 How to reduce water pollutions
 Promotes organic agriculture
 Use less plastics
 Conserve water
 Proper waste disposal
 Use less chemicals if possible.
Noise pollution
 Noise pollution
 Any unwanted sound or noise that affects the health and
well being of humans and other organisms
 Invisible pollutions
 Noise pollution
 Transport noise
 Industrial sites
 Neighborhood noise
 Events
 Industrializations
 Effects of Noise pollution
 Hypertension-
 Hearing loss -
 Sleeping disorders
 Cardiovascular issues
 Affects the wild life. -
Toxicology
 Toxicology
 Study of the harmful effects of substances to living things
 Science of poison
 Paracelsus father of toxicology – only the dose could be
poison.
Paracelsus
 December 17, 1493 –
September 24, 1541
 German – Swiss
physician
 Stablished the role of
chemistry in medicine
 Purpose of toxicology
 Helps us understand the harmful effects of
chemical substances on people, animals and the
environment.
 Research, prevention and treatment of disease
caused by chemicals, drugs and toxins.
 Natural Toxins
 Poison Ivy - uroshiol
 Azalea -
 Snake venom -
 Manchineel tree = phorbol ester the toxic
chemical found in
 Synthetic toxins
 Asbestus can cause cancer
 Pesticides – chiorpyrifos
Pandemic: a closer look at Covid 19.
 Infectious disease
 Are illness that caused by micro organisms such as viruses,
fungi, bacteria or parasites. It can be transmitted from
animals to humans or human to humans.
 These disease causing microorganisms are called Pathogens
 Common Infectious diseases
 Common cold
 Flue
 Chicken pox
 HIV/AIDS
 Epidemic
 pandemic
 Plague
Toxic heavy metals
 Toxic heavy metals
 Any metallic chemical elements that has a
relatively high density and is toxic or poisonous
at low concentrations
 Individual metals and metal compounds that
negatively affect people’s health.
 Persistent organic pollutants
 Hazardous chemicals that threaten human health and the
planets ecosystem.
 Transfer through the food we eat, the air we breath , in the
indoors, outdoors and at the work places.
Examples:
Effects of pollutants