Question

Development Goals and Environmental Health

What area of environmental health would you prioritize for intervention to improve the lives and health of most people worldwide? What environmental health concern would you prioritize for your proximate community? Are those priorities different? Why or why not?

Answer 1

In this era we are phasingsing many environmental health hazards, one of the most important things in this category is environmental pollution. I think, everybody should take initiatives to control pollution that surrounds our environment. There are several reasons for environmental pollution, it includes emissions from factories, vehicles etc, pollution from construction sites, hospital wastages and more. If we can able to control pollution from these for a certain extent I am sure that the quality of our lives would improve drastically. For that we should ourselves restrict from activities that pollute our environment. More than that our government can also do a lot, like educate the people regarding activities that harm our environment, they can implement stringent rules and regulations to punish people who pollute our environment intentionally, introduction of electric vehicles etc.

I would definitely initiates these measures in my proximate community also. Because, I hale from Kerala and we have long been phasing problems related to environmental pollution. Many of my villagers are asthmatic due to pollution. So I want to control this through such reforming activities.