Impact of pollution on human health: A mini review article
Leena Lakhani
Department of Zoology Govt. Girls P.G. College, Ujjain .India.
Abstract
Exposures to environmental pollution remain a major source of health risk throughout the world. The combined effects of exposures and multiple exposures to different pollutants which might act synergistically all create difficulties in separating associations between environmental pollution and health. Pollution effects are indeed many and wide-ranging. There is no doubt that excessive levels of pollution are causing a lot of damage to human and animal health, tropical rainforests, as well as the wider environment. The present paper attempts to assess the impact of different pollutants by natural sources on human health and is expected to reveal not only the status of pollution-associated health problems but also form a baseline data for further detailed investigation on health impact assessment.
Disease, Environment, Health impact assessment, Health, Pollution, Tropical rainforest
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Received: 10.08.2017
Revised: 25.10.2017
Accepted: 12.12.2017
First Online: 20.06. 2018
Publisher Name: Action for Sustainable Efficacious Development and Awareness (ASEA)
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