Paper Topic:

Environmental Health and Safety

Air Pollution

Abstract

With the development of technology , human started to interfere with nature more and more . Such interference resulted in pollution that represents a serious threat to people 's health . A lot of new inventions appear every day and pollute air and water . This pollution results in different diseases which appear and grow progressively worse . This will discuss the effect it has on our children and provide the advices for a nurse how to reduce the impact of pollution (Sunyer , 2001

Air Pollution

Introduction

Air pollution is one

of the most important problems of our time that needs urgent resolution . According to World Health Organization (WHO air pollution can be considered as a reason of death of more than 2 million people every year , around 1 .5 million of these cases is connected with indoor air pollution (Sunyer , 2001 . Children are more vulnerable to air pollution , so serious measures should be taken in to reduce the impact (Zoidis , 1999 Outdoor pollution

A lot of diseases like asthma , pneumonia and different allergies grow progressively worse because of traffic pollution that represents the main source of outdoor pollution . It is determined that children suffer more than adults due to the fact that they breathe more rapidly . Also they often breathe though mouth , not through nose , especially when they catch cold or are doing exercises . Breathing through nose filter air while breathing through mouth let the most harmful pollutants penetrate the organism . For the developing children 's organism such breathing...

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