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2. Pollution is the introduction of harmful
materials into the environment. These
harmful materials are called pollutants.
Pollutants can be natural, such as volcanic
ash. They can also be created by human
activity, such as trash or runoff produced by
factories. Pollutants damage the quality of air,
water, and land.
4. Air pollution is the introduction of chemical ,
particulates matter, biological materials that
causes harm full or other living organisms or
causes damages to the nature environment
built environment into the atmosphere .
5. Soil or land pollution can be defined as
the build-up in soils of persistent toxic
chemical compounds, salts, radioactive
materials, or even disease-causing agents,
which adversely affects the growth of a plant
and the health of animals.
6. Noise pollution is considered to be any
unwanted or disturbing sound that affects the
health and well-being of humans and other
organisms. Sound is measured in decibels.
7. Water pollution is the contamination of water
bodies ( e.g. . Lake,river,oceans,aquifers and
groundwater)
In almost all cause the effect is damaging not
only to individual species and population but
also to the nature biological communities .
8. Pollution causes global warming death and
diseases in both plants and animals.
Air pollution is caused by solid and liquid
particles and certain gases that are
suspended in the air. These particles and
gases can come from car and truck exhaust,
factories, dust, pollen, mold spores,
volcanoes and wildfires. The solid and liquid
particles suspended in our air are called
aerosols.
9. Pollution effects are defined as “direct and/or
indirect adverse impacts of contaminants on the
marine environment, such as harm to living
resources and marine ecosystems, including loss
of biodiversity, hazards to human health, the
hindering of marine activities, including fishing,
tourism and recreation and other legitimate uses
of the sea, impairment of the quality for use of
sea water and reduction of amenities or, in
general, impairment of the sustainable use of
marine goods and services”
10. Health is a state of complete physical, mental,
and social well-being and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity.
Types of health
Mental
Physical
Social
11. Biomedical concept
Ecological concept
Psychosocial concept
Holistic concept
Disease control phase
Improved the health of people due to
disease and death.
eg. Water supply , sewage disposal etc.
12. Mother and child health services.
School health services.
Industrial health services.
Mental health and rehabilitation services.