EBC1082 Blog post 6: Global Health

Global health
The world is facing diverse and multiple types of health challenges and public health hazards. From recent years, the spread of influenza, measles and diphtheria and other diseases have escalated and come back, and the resistance of pathogens has become stronger. The large increase in the obesity rate, the lack of physical activity leads to poor body immunity, etc .; coupled with the severe environmental pollution and the climate of the climate, the weather is hot and cold, unpredictable, and makes various viruses spread in the atmosphere.
Starting this year, the World Health Organization regards air pollution as the greatest threat to human health. Pollutants in the air can penetrate the human respiratory system and cardiovascular circulatory system, causing damage to the lungs, heart and brain.
It is estimated that nine out of ten people in the world live in an air pollution environment every day. Each year, about 7 million people die from cancer, stroke, heart disease and lung disease due to air pollution.
Air pollution is mostly caused by burning fossil fuels; excessive carbon emissions caused by fossil fuels are also the cause of climate change and extreme climate.
There are many reasons for the poor environment nowadays because human beings don’t take good care of the environment we live in. Protecting nature has rules for everyone. Sorting out garbage starts with you and me.

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