A Stitch in Time Saves Nine

Author: Isaac Asher
Despite all the huge claims made by the Government, Environmental pollution is reaching worrying proportions worldwide. Urbanization and industrialization along with economic development have led to increase in energy consumption and waste discharges. The global environmental pollution, including greenhouse gas emissions and acid deposition, as well as water pollution and waste management is considered as international public health problems, which should be investigated from multiple perspectives including social, economic, legislation, and environmental engineering systems, as well as lifestyle habits helping health promotions and strengthening environmental systems to resist contamination

Environmental pollutants have various forms like Air Pollution. The polluted air does great harm to human health and has a direct relationship with disease rate. With the increase of vehicles and activities in cities, the noise has gradually become an important factor affecting people’s daily lives. On the other side, Water, the most important and basic part of human life and hence having a direct relationship with the quality of life, is also getting contaminated as a result of irresponsible behaviors adopted by the people towards it.
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Environmental pollutants have various adverse effects on human health from early life. Some of the most important harmful effects are perinatal disorders, infant mortality, respiratory disorders, allergy, malignancies, cardiovascular disorders, and increase in stress oxidative, endothelial dysfunction, mental disorders, and various other harmful effects.

Though, short-term effects of environmental pollutants are usually highlighted, wide range of hazards of air pollution from early life and their possible implication on chronic non-communicable diseases of adulthood should be underscored. Numerous studies have exposed that environmental particulate exposure has been linked to increased risk of morbidity and mortality from many diseases, organ disturbances, cancers, and other chronic diseases.

Therefore it is time to take action and control this menace. Otherwise, the waste products from consumption, heating, agriculture, mining, manufacturing, transportation, and other human activities will degrade and ultimately destroy the environment.

Based on the strength of the scientific knowledge regarding the adverse health effects of environmental pollution and the magnitude of their public health impacts, different kinds of interventions should be taken into account. In addition to industrial aspects, the public awareness should be increased in this regard. Likewise, health professionals have an exclusive competency to help for prevention and reduction of the harmful effects of environmental factors, this capacity should be highlighted in their usual practice.

It is about time that we lay our focus on research and professional implementation and I appeal all the dear readers to play their parts in any possible manner to control this menace while we still can, as it is said that a stitch in time saves nine.