Answer:
1. How does poor environmental sanitation affect the health of the community?
- Poor sanitation reduces human well-being, social and economic development due to impacts such as anxiety, risk of sexual assault, and lost educational opportunities
What are the main causes of poor sanitation?
- Open defecation.
- Unsafe drinking water.
- High density living.
- Lack of education.
- Increased health issues.
- Increase in diseases.
- Decrease in schooling.
- Downturn in economic opportunity.
Why environmental sanitation is important?
- Proper sanitation promotes health, improves the quality of the environment and thus, the quality of life in a community. Sanitation refers to the safe collection, transportation, treatment and disposal of human wastes.
2. What do you think will be the effect if respiratory and skin diseases are left untreated?
- I think the condition can be acute or chronic. With acute respiratory failure, you experience immediate symptoms from not having enough oxygen in your body. In most cases, this failure may lead to death if it's not treated quickly.
How does the respiratory system affect the environment?
- Breathing in air pollutants can irritate your airways and may cause shortness of breath, coughing, wheezing, asthma episodes and chest pain. Exposure to air pollution puts you at risk for lung cancer, heart attacks, stroke and in extreme cases, premature death.
What is Resperatory Failure?
- Respiratory failure is a serious condition that develops when the lungs can't get enough oxygen into the blood, Buildup of carbon dioxide can also damage the tissues and organs and further impair oxygenation of blood and, as a result, slow oxygen delivery to the tissues.
