ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN HEALTH

                                     

Types of Environment

There are many types of environment, but some of the most common are physical, social, and cognitive.

Physical Environment

A physical environment is one that surrounds an individual and includes the individual’s physical surroundings and the elements within them. These surroundings can include the weather, the landscape, the buildings, and the people within them.
The physical environment includes the climate, the natural resources, and the landforms. The climate is the average weather conditions in an area. The natural resources are the things that the earth provides, such as water, air, land, and minerals. The landforms are the features of the earth’s surface, such as mountains, rivers, and valleys.


The physical environment is important because it supports human life and all other life forms. It provides resources that humans need to survive, such as air, water, food, and shelter. It also regulates the global climate and natural cycles. These include the water cycle and the carbon cycle.

Physical Environment -
  • The physical environment prioritizes the abiotic elements of our environments such as the lithospheres with its rocks, sediments, etc. or the atmospheres and its air currents.
  • Climate change influences the physical environment, but it can be both natural and anthropogenic.
  • Natural hazards influence the physical environment, but they can also be natural, positive, or anthropogenic.
  • There are significant ways in which the physical environment has been modified over the course of time, and it remains a dynamic system that is constantly being remodelled.

The human environment includes the buildings, the transportation systems, and the communications systems. The buildings are the places where people live, work, and play. The transportation systems are the roads, the bridges, and the railroads. The communications systems are the telephone lines, the radio stations, and the televis.
The human environment includes the buildings, the transportation systems, and the communications systems. The buildings are the places where people live, work, and play. The transportation systems are the roads, the bridges, and the railroads. The communications systems are the telephone lines, the radio stations, and the television stations.

Social Environment


                                            
A social environment is one that surrounds an individual and includes the individual’s social surroundings and the elements within them. These surroundings can include the people an individual interacts with, the groups an individual is a part of, and the norms and values of those groups.
The social environment includes the culture, the religion, and the government. The culture is the way of life of the people in an area. The religion is the system of beliefs about the world and the afterlife. The government is the system of laws and the organization of the people who make the laws.
The social environment encompasses the immediate physical surroundings that have been modified by humans and in which anthropogenic activities and interactions occur, along their culturally motivated paths. This includes health services and economic processes.

Cognitive Environment

A cognitive environment is one that surrounds an individual and includes the individual’s cognitive surroundings and the elements within them. These surroundings can include the thoughts an individual has, the information an individual is exposed to, and the way an individual processes information.

                                           


Living environment and health

                                             
The living environmental and its organisms health are linked because chemical energy flows constantly between producers (e.g. plants), consumers (e.g. plant-eaters) and decomposers. This is called a food chain, system, or web.
The roles and functions of our living environment are multifaceted. The presence of life on Earth has not only brought modifications to the climate but has also enabled our evolution.

Living Environment -

  •  Highly specific intra- and extraplanetary conditions in the formative stages of Earth's development allowed life to develop and survive

  • Physical and chemical exchanges between the major earth systems which are the land, water and atmosphere sustain the living environment.

  • Human interactions with their environment are significant enough to produce measurable changes in Earth's systems

  • Research, critique, data collection, spatial analysis, observations and knowledge progress allow for measures to be taken to conserve, protect or enhance the living environment's characteristics.

  • We are part of a distinct global ecosystem that constantly tries to achieve homeostasis.

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                It is essential to conserve natural areas and encourage biodiversity to ensure continued habitation for all organisms on Earth.


                

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