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Growth and Development of Medicinal Plants, and Production of Secondary Metabolites under Ozone Pollution
Published in Azamal Husen, Environmental Pollution and Medicinal Plants, 2022
Deepti, Archana (Joshi) Bachheti, Piyush Bhalla, Rakesh Kumar Bachheti, Azamal Husen
Life on Earth is not possible without its environment or without interacting with other species or ecosystems, which are very significant units of life on Earth. The life cycle involves the assembling and disassembling of various atoms from the environment and returning them to the environment. The Industrial Revolution played a major role in the change of atmospheric gases and the presence of particulate matter and their effects on the natural environment, leading to environmental pollution. Environmental pollution can be defined as unwanted or unfavourable changes or alterations of our surroundings, mainly as a by-product of human action through direct or indirect effects of change in energy patterns, radiation levels, chemical and physical constitution, and abundance of organisms.
Health and urban living
Published in Ben Y.F. Fong, Martin C.S. Wong, The Routledge Handbook of Public Health and the Community, 2021
Cities do concentrate health risks and hazards. The impact of adverse events such as water supply contamination, environmental pollution or natural disasters is amplified in densely populated urban settings. Precarious housing conditions also constitute hazards for many urban residents. In many cities around the world, unfavourable health determinants have converged to create a triple threat of urban diseases and health conditions, consisting of:infectious diseases;non-communicable diseases and conditions; andinjuries from accidents and violence (World Health Organisation, 2010).
Pollutants for Herbal Drugs
Published in Ravindra Kumar Pandey, Shiv Shankar Shukla, Amber Vyas, Vishal Jain, Parag Jain, Shailendra Saraf, Fingerprinting Analysis and Quality Control Methods of Herbal Medicines, 2018
Ravindra Kumar Pandey, Shiv Shankar Shukla, Amber Vyas, Vishal Jain, Parag Jain, Shailendra Saraf
Contamination of herbal materials with toxic substances such as arsenic can be attributed to many causes. These include environmental pollution such as: Contaminated emissions from factories and leaded petrolContaminated water including runoff waterSoil composition and fertilizers
Menstrual Stigma Rearticulated as Environmental Pollution in Contemporary Scottish Policy-Making
Published in Women's Reproductive Health, 2023
The terminology and cognitive structure of pollution continues in contemporary Scotland with reference to single-use menstrual products on an environmental scale. The Marine Litter report speaks of used disposable menstrual products as “pollution,” which is the standard term for emissions of gases, fluids, and solids into the environment. As indicated above, pollution is also the anthropological framework for explaining the disgust, shame, and embarrassment that menstruation elicits in many cultures. Much like the concept of menstrual pollution relies on and enforces an unattainable containment ideal for an embodied human, so the concept of environmental pollution relies on and enforces an unattainable containment ideal for “the environment.” The environment is cast in similar terms to the embodied human: as a pure entity that should remain enclosed and unpolluted. In the logic of menstrual pollution, as mentioned, the human is separated from its environment through classing the emission of blood into the environment as pollution. This emission is here seen from the opposite angle of the environment as likewise a threat to its boundaries.
Metagenomics reveals impact of geography and acute diarrheal disease on the Central Indian human gut microbiome
Published in Gut Microbes, 2020
Tanya M. Monaghan, Tim J. Sloan, Stephen R. Stockdale, Adam M. Blanchard, Richard D. Emes, Mark Wilcox, Rima Biswas, Rupam Nashine, Sonali Manke, Jinal Gandhi, Pratishtha Jain, Shrejal Bhotmange, Shrikant Ambalkar, Ashish Satav, Lorraine A. Draper, Colin Hill, Rajpal Singh Kashyap
The co-occurrence of pathogens and AMR genes for critically important antibiotics offers increased opportunities for unwanted horizontal gene transfer events.30 Perhaps of most concern, the Ambler class B metallo-beta-lactamase NDM, which was detected in only 1 of 35 rural subjects but was found in 32/70 urban subjects, and also supports clinical data detecting carbapenemase-producing pathogens from Mumbai,33 and another recent study showing that NDM-1 is also common in hospital effluent from Delhi.34 Our findings suggest that improving sanitation, health, and education as part of the UN Sustainable Development Goals as well as the consideration of new legislative measures for curtailing environmental pollution may be effective strategies for limiting the burden of AMR in India and globally.
Early-life exposure to air pollution and childhood allergic diseases: an update on the link and its implications
Published in Expert Review of Clinical Immunology, 2020
Chan Lu, Dan Norbäck, Yuguo Li, Qihong Deng
Environmental pollution exerts different health effects on different people. Infants and young children are more susceptible to the adverse health effects resulting from exposure to air pollution [46,47] due to the relative immaturity of their respiratory and immune systems [48]. Furthermore, children spend more time outdoors, and breathe about 50% more air per kilogram of body weight compared with adults, which means that children receive relatively higher doses of air pollutants [49]. As the human lung continues to grow from the intrauterine stage until early adulthood [48,50], this relatively high exposure to air pollution may significantly increase vulnerability and health risk [51]. Most of the earlier studies carried out in China focused primarily on school-age children or adults, with only a few studies on the impact of environmental air pollution on health outcomes in preschool children. However, childhood allergies have increased and continue to increase rapidly. It is therefore urgent to investigate the effects of both indoor and outdoor air pollution exposure on childhood allergic diseases.