The relationship between environment and health

Law on Environmental Protection No. 72/2020/QH14 clearly states: “The environment includes natural and artificial physical elements that are closely related to each other, surrounding humans, affecting life, economy, society, existence, development of humans, organisms and nature”.

It is estimated that about 24% of diseases and 23% of deaths in the world are caused by the environment, so the content of research on the organic interactions between the environment and health, proposing measures to manage and protect the environment in the development for people's health is something that all industries and professions are interested in.

Environmental components include: lithosphere (soil environment), biosphere (biosphere) (biological environment), atmosphere (atmosphere) (air environment) and hydrosphere (hydrosphere) (water environment).

There are 4 environmental factors that affect health: physical environment including factors such as climate, noise, light, radiation, labor burden; chemical environment such as dust, chemicals, drugs, food; biological environment such as animals, plants, parasites, bacteria, viruses, genetic factors and social environment including stress, relationships between people;...

Our Party and State always care about people's health by creating a safe, equal and fair living environment for all people, demonstrating basic human rights, state humanism and social solidarity.

Environmental protection activities include pollution remediation, environmental improvement, exploitation, rational and economical use of natural resources, and protection of biodiversity.

Environmental managers have established permissible limits for parameters on environmental quality and pollutant content in waste, which are regulated by competent state agencies as a basis for environmental management and protection.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Health has issued 83 criteria for assessing hospital quality that are being widely deployed to private clinics, clinics, and traditional medicine facilities with the contents of ensuring electrical safety and fire prevention and fighting; infection prevention and control, solid and liquid waste management. This helps hospitals provide high-quality medical services, build hospital brands and reputations, and improve the quality of medical services to ensure the safety of both patients and medical staff.

Outside the community, there are three types of environmental pollution: water, air and soil, in which water pollution has a high rate of spread and a large scale of impact on life. When polluted water evaporates, it causes air pollution, dirty water seeps into the soil, creating soil pollution.

Traditional environmental hazards often manifest quickly in the form of illness, such as water pollution causing diarrhea, vomiting, and scabies. Modern environmental hazards have a long latency period from exposure to disease manifestation, such as radioactive substances polluting the soil, and toxic chemicals that seep into plants and animals and can cause cancer in humans decades after exposure.

Therefore, each person must be aware of personal hygiene to maintain health, then clean the living environment around us to minimize environmental pollution.

Environmental protection is the cause of the whole society, the right and responsibility of state agencies, organizations, households and individuals. Environmental protection must be harmoniously linked with economic development and ensure social progress for sustainable national development. National environmental protection must be linked with regional and global environmental protection.

Environmental protection activities must be regular, with prevention as the main focus, combined with overcoming pollution and degradation; at the same time, improving environmental quality.

Aware of the importance of protecting a green, clean and beautiful environment for people's health, each of us must promote and educate the community to maintain environmental hygiene and build a healthy lifestyle from individuals to families, from families to society, in the spirit of "A healthy person - healthy family, healthy family - healthy nation, healthy nation - healthy world"./.

DSCKII. Ly Thi Nhat Dinh

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