Environmental Issues on Global Health
Seven Environmental Issues
Complete the following chart by identifying seven environmental issues that affect global health. In the second column, describe in complete sentences how the issue affects global health.
Environmental issue
How does the issue affect global health?
1.Driving/ Transportation
This issue affects global health through air pollution from toxic gases.
2.Consumption of Energy
Excessive use of energy in one part of the world tends to the deplete accessibility in another part at the same time.
3.Consumption of water
Unsafe practices in water consumption can lead to contamination with human waste and chemicals which is dangerous to health
4.Global Warming
Climatic changes that affect personal health and also give rise to flooding or droughts.
5.Cutting down of trees
Cutting down of tree causes to global warming ozone layer disruptions.
6.Improper waste disposal
Contamination of roadways, land pollution, water contamination is created when excreta and garbage is dumped in these places.
7.Over/ improper use of chemicals
Research has proven that skin cancers, birth defects, liver and kidney damage are caused by over or improper use of chemicals.
Which of the seven environmental issues is the most damaging to the environment and why?
More importantly, making a direct impact is the discriminatory extermination of trees for aesthetic, commercial and construction of roads. It has been posited by forestry scientists that global warming is directly related to the green house effect. Therefore, with every tree that has been cut down there is a global warming consequence.
Precisely, the physiology of global warming indicates that carbon dioxide when converted to oxygen creates an increase in circulating greenhouse gases which eventually trap warm air into the earth’s strata and ozone fields. Subsequently, there are warmer temperatures with the possibility of heat waves (Donatelle, 2009)
It has been forecast that immense climatic changes will ensue. These can have far reaching effects globally. They can extend beyond hurricanes, forest fires, flooding, and tornadoes in isolated areas of the world known to have had these occurrences but to countries where natural disasters never visited. Reports have bee that already, there are serious droughts in sub-Saharan Africa. The real impact it the inability to plant crops which affect the national economy as well as global export of food to countries which depend on sub-Saharan Africa for their food supply. Besides, this country has endured hardships due to lack of food for their own people (Donatelle, 2009)
More reports have been that the freezing rate of ice in the Arctic Circle has been greatly reduced affecting species of animal life it that geographic area. Seasonal changes have left animals confused since they have not reconciled adjusting to glaciers thawing off sooner than they had expected (Donatelle, 2009).
Global warming is an environmental issue that cannot escape the attention of social planners whether it is political, Social, Scientific or environmental. It impacts are so intense that collaborative efforts ought to be undertaken in resolving its effects.
Repair a Broken Health Care System
Complete the following chart. Provide seven proposals for changing the health care system. For each proposal, complete the Pros, Cons, and Future Outlook columns.
Proposal
Pros
Cons
Future Outlook
1. Affordable Health Insurance
Health Insurance Companies will have to reduce elaborate premiums
Consumers will have to select a health plan
More consumers can afford health care
2.Make Health Care accessible
Providers of Health Care must be inclusive and not exclusive to those who have the best insurance
Consumers will have to be proactive in acquiring the best quality of care available
More consumers can access health care
3. Create health care privileges for consumers who cannot afford insurance neither to pay
Visitors can access care in an emergency.
Remove restrictions from categorizing who can access health care in America
Develop a health care system which is not discriminatory
4.Provide quality health care to Medicaid recipients
All taxpayers deserve the best quality care possible
Since this disadvantaged group cannot afford to pay for health care they receive poorest quality that is available
Develop a health care system which is not discriminatory
5.Provide quality health care irrespective of race, gender, ethnicity, immigration status or cultural orientation
All health care consumers deserve the best quality care possible
In every nation on earth quality health should be accessible to all people.
Develop a health care system which is not discriminatory
6. Improve health care services to pregnant women
Pregnant women should access care regardless of whether they have health insurance or not.
Pregnant women should not be denied quality health care.
Reduce the high incidence of maternal and child health mortality and morbidity in America.
7. Improved health care services to the elderly and children
Elderly and children should be given priority in accessing quality care regardless of whether they have health insurance or not.
Elderly and children should not be denied quality health care.
Develop a health care system which is not discriminatory
Seven Issues Affecting Health Care
The text lists seven issues affecting health care. For each issue, explain how the issue affects health care.
Health care issue
How does the issue affect health care?
1.Health Insurance Coverage
Some consumers cannot afford health care since 42 million Americans are uninsured (Donatelle, 2009)
2.Informed consent
Informed consent protects the client from being exploited as a consumer of health care
3.The right to privacy
Information regarding a client’s health history should not be disclosed to a third party without prior consent
4.Practice of Allopathic
medicine
This allows clients to access quality care derived from extensive research findings validated by scientifically proven case study and experiment data
5. Allopathic Specialties
This indicates who will render care to the consumer within the health care system. Often this is assessed based on the extent of care required at that particular time. Hence, the primary care physician attends to general heath concerns. Next in descending order is the Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant (Donatelle, 2009).
6. Federal Insurance Programs
Bureaucratic measures limit access to quality care for the elderly, children and disabled who do qualify for coverage.HMO/PPO operation regarding accessibility to specialists and physicians clients are forced to see within the network jeopardizes the process.
7.Self Care Responsibilities
When clients pay attention to their health by adapting healthy life style attitudes as well as routine physical checkup; the overall health care cost is greatly reduced.
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Donatelle J. Rebecca (2009). Access to Health. Green Edition, 11/E. Oregon State
University. Benjamin Cummings
