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The document discusses the relationship between the environment and human health, focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic. It notes that environmental factors can cause diseases and unsafe water and sanitation practices spread infectious illnesses. The COVID-19 virus likely originated in bats and was transmitted to humans, demonstrating the link between disturbing wildlife and disease emergence. The pandemic has highlighted the need to strengthen environmental health to reduce vulnerability to pandemics through better air and water quality, waste management, and biodiversity protection. Individual actions like mask-wearing and social distancing along with fundamental changes in human-nature interactions are needed to emerge from the crisis and prevent future disasters.

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The document discusses the relationship between the environment and human health, focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic. It notes that environmental factors can cause diseases and unsafe water and sanitation practices spread infectious illnesses. The COVID-19 virus likely originated in bats and was transmitted to humans, demonstrating the link between disturbing wildlife and disease emergence. The pandemic has highlighted the need to strengthen environmental health to reduce vulnerability to pandemics through better air and water quality, waste management, and biodiversity protection. Individual actions like mask-wearing and social distancing along with fundamental changes in human-nature interactions are needed to emerge from the crisis and prevent future disasters.

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The document discusses the relationship between the environment and human health, focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic. It notes that environmental factors can cause diseases and unsafe water and sanitation practices spread infectious illnesses. The COVID-19 virus likely originated in bats and was transmitted to humans, demonstrating the link between disturbing wildlife and disease emergence. The pandemic has highlighted the need to strengthen environmental health to reduce vulnerability to pandemics through better air and water quality, waste management, and biodiversity protection. Individual actions like mask-wearing and social distancing along with fundamental changes in human-nature interactions are needed to emerge from the crisis and prevent future disasters.

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Rivera, Joanne G.

AM 250
MS Agricultural Economics I

Environmental Health for


COVID-19 Prevention

Humans interact with the environment constantly. These interactions affect


quality of life, years of healthy life lived, and health disparities. The World Health
Organization (WHO) defines environment, as it relates to health, as “all the physical,
chemical, and biological factors external to a person, and all the related behaviors.”
Although the environment sustains human life, it can also cause diseases.
Furthermore, unsafe drinking water and poor sanitation as well as poor hygiene
practices are also responsible for a variety of infectious diseases. So how much can
the burden of disease be reduced by reducing environmental risks to health? If we
can estimate the burden of disease from environmental risks, we can also evaluate
the most important priorities for targeted environmental protection, while helping to
promote the idea that sound environmental management plays a key role in
protecting people’s health.
However, in just a short span of moment, the world is greatly affected by the
occurence of a pandemic disease called “COVID-19” and thousands of people have
already died, and hundreds of thousands more have fallen ill, from this coronavirus
disease. The way that the virus got started in the first place isn't clear yet, but one
theory involves another animal-human connection, that the virus started in bats and
then got into humans. But what if we, the humans, are the ones who started this?
What if the occurence of this pandemic is not about how animals and their “germs”
are invading our human realm but about how we’re invading theirs? A lot of people
think that “exotic” animals are to blame for the coronavirus crisis because they’re
dirty and infested with tons of pathogens that just can’t wait to kill us. If people didn’t
have an interest in eating this wild animals, there’s likely a lesser possibility for
having a disease. Furthermore, this horrendous act is illegal in the Philippines under
the Republic Act No. 9147 also known as the “Wildlife Resources Conservation and
Protection Act” and according to Mr. Leo Poon, a virologist in Hongkong, ending the
trade of wild animals in China is a big decision of their government to make since
consuming a exotic animals is part of their country’s culture. Likewise, people should
mind their actions, not carelessly eat and disrupt the wildlife environment since we
all learned in our biology class that we have a lots of microbes inside in our body but
it can turn into a pathogens and cause diseases because they’re new to us. So how
does this coronavirus gets into our system?
COVID-19 spreads by droplets shed of the respiratory system by an infected
person when they coughs, sneezes or speaks. A person can also become infected
by touching a contaminated surface and then touching your eyes, nose or mouth
before washing your hands which means that it would spread with higher proximity
of people, larger contact networks and lower levels of hygiene. Most of death cases
of coronavirus outbreak are happening largely in old people possibly due to a weak
immune system that permits rapid growth of viral infections.
The COVID-19 crisis has clearly demonstrated that societies need to strengthen
their resilience to pandemics and other emergencies. Enhancing environmental
health through better air quality, water and sanitation, waste management, along
with efforts to safeguard biodiversity, will reduce the vulnerability of communities to
pandemic and thus, improve overall societal well-being and resilience. Exposure to
ambient and indoor air pollution increases the risk of cardiovascular, respiratory and
developmental diseases, as well as premature death, and makes individuals more
vulnerable to COVID-19. Water access and quality and biodiversity protection are
key to battling the spread of pandemic, while effective waste management is
essential to minimize possible secondary impacts upon health and the environment.
The true extent of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis has yet to be fully
determined, but it will be immensely uncontested (Helm, 2020). At the meantime, it
is every individual's duty to follow the protocols to wear facemask and practice
social distancing as well as proper sanitation (Luan and Ching, 2020). We’ve been
using up a lot of natural resources and now the bill is coming due. We’re going to
lurch from disaster to disaster to disaster until we start to really change the
fundamental relationship between us and nature.To the end, it is possible only by
mutual understanding and willingness of every individual to follow health protocols
and the world will emerge stronger than this epidemic.
References:

Helm, D. (2020). The environmental impacts of the coronavirus. Environmental


and Resource Economics. Retrieved from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-020-
00426-z

Luan, P.T., Ching, C.T. & S., (2020). A reusable mask for coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19). Retrieved from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arcmed

Official Gazette (2001). Republic Act No. 9147. Retrieved from: https://www.
officialgazette.gov.ph/2001/07/30/republic-act-no-9417/

Westcott, B & Deng, S.(2020, March 5). CNN. China has made eating wild animals
illegal after the coronavirus outbreak but ending the trade won't be easy.
Retrieved from:https://www.fox10tv.com/news/us_world_news/china-has-made-
eating-wild-animals-illegal-after-the-coronavirus/article_6e429e0f-bc89-565b-87
1c-a5e256ca5dd0.html

Wikipedia. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the environment. Retrieved from:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_on _the_
environment#Wildlife

World Health Organization. (2020). Coronavirus disease (COVID-2019) situation


reports. Geneva: World Health Organization. Retrieved from
https://www.who.int/
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