Project Report

On
LIVING ENVIRONMENT
VS
HEALTH
(AHE 01)
Under the guidance of:
DR. HINA PARVEZ
Submitted By:
NAME: MOHAMMAD AZAD
Roll No. 135630917
Course: BDP (Final Year)
Study Centre Code: 2713
IGNOU, Aligarh
Certificate

This is to certify that the project of AHE-01

entitled LIVING ENVIRONMENT VS HEALTH
being

submitted

by

MOHAMMAD

AZAD

program B.A. Enrollment No. 135630917 under

supervision and guidance of undersigned.

(DR.
HINA
PARVEZ)
(Project
Coordinator)

Acknowledgment
I would like to take this opportunity
to express sincere thanks and deep
sense of gratitude to my project guide
Dr. Hina Parvez for her motivation and
guidance without which this project
would not have been possible. I consider
myself

fortunate

for

having

the

opportunity to learn and work under her

guidance.
At last but not the least I thank my
parents and friends for their support and
affection throughout this project work.

Mohammad Azad

Title: Living Environment VS Health

We

live

on

earth

surroundings.

This

in

different

surrounding

types
is

of
our

environment the physical environment on the

earth

provides

favorable

conditions

for

the

existence and growth of different life forms;

including man. Both the physical and Biological
environments are

in a close interaction with

each other and forms a stable self-perpetuating

system.

In

prehistoric

times

man

lived

in

harmony with nature but in the course of his

evolution man has develop a new type of
environment, the man made environment man is
a social animal; the socio-cultural environment
also place an important role in his life.
The environment is constantly changing and this
affects life on earth; some of these effects can be
lasting and irreversible.
Environmental Health
Environmental Health can be define as the
aspect of public health that is concerned with all
external conditions such as all forms of life,

substances, forces, problems and challenges and

any other condition in the surrounding of man
that may exert an influence on mans health and
well-being Disease, in this sense, represents a
maladjustment

of

the

human

being

to

his

environment. Although ancient civilizations were

aware of the effects of environment on health,
the importance of clean environment in the
modern times was realised in Europe only after
the Industrial revolution in 1842. It was known as
The great sanitary awakening.
Community Health
Community Health is defined more broadly and
encompasses the entire gamut of communityorganized efforts for maintaining, protecting and
improving the health of the people. It involves
motivation of the individual and groups to change
the pattern of behaviour.
In

community

individuals

as

Health,
a

instead

patient,

it

is

of

studding

essential

understand:
The patient represents the community

to

 Community Diagnosis is essential.

Planning treatment for the community is the
objective.
Community diagnosis may require relevant data
these are collected and interpreted.
Age and sex distribution in the population
under study and its distribution in social
groups in the community.

Flat No.
Apartment Name
Address
Particulars of the house
1.Surface Area
2.No. of Bed Rooms
3.No. of Toilet
4.No. of ventilators
5.Accessibility to sun light
Members of the House

Gender Age

Discussion
Out of the five houses, I surveyed the surface
area of the flats ranges from 1450 sq m to 1880
sq m. Three of the five flats were having 3 bed
rooms and were quite spacious. However the
ventilation facility were not satisfactory as there
was

no

arrangement

for

cross

ventilation.

Further, residents reported that they get sunlight

for about two to three hours a day. Two of the five
flats situated at the road side reported noise
pollution chiefly by the vehicles passing by. All of
the five houses had their own water purifier and
none of them were using tap water for drinking
our cooking purposes.
Out of 10 members we surveyed none of them
were aware of the exact concept of health
envisaged by world health organization 4 out of
10 persons reported to have been doing exercise
on a daily basis. Walking was the most preferred
mode of exercise however 8 out of 10 people
found

to

be

balanced diet

deeply

concerned

about

their

7 out of 10 reported that they

wash hands before meal but only when they are

at home. All people to fast food at least once a
week. More over half of them work having fast
food on a daily basis and three of them were
overweight half of them admitted to have visited
a doctor in last six month and for them were
diagnosed diseases related with unhealthy life
style. As expected, 9 out of 10 persons were not
satisfied with work done by municipal authorities
in providing a clean environment.

CONCLUSIONS
The Survey, as we found is following the pattern
of a typical modern life style and the problem of
over crowdedness of our urban regions were
people

despite

being

reasonably

well

off

economically could not keep them self-healthy

because of their life style. While it was pleasant
to find that all of the five houses made sure that
they have access to pure drinking water but
unfortunately all of them were found to be taking
fast food and ignoring its harmful effects our
findings also suggest their indifferent attitudes
towards daily physical exercise.
Survey signifies that the rapid and to much
migration towards urban centres has made these
congested.
becoming

spacious
difficult

planning

and

and

day
not

healthy

by

day

very

living

is

inadequate
satisfactory

implementation of existing regulations has made

the

matter

worse.

Both

community

government are responsible for this.

and

They have to work together to make amends

people need to be responsible in keeping their
environment clean and follow general guidelines
for good environment and Government should
also need to rectify the regulations when needed
and educate and encourage people towards
healthy

community

environmental health.

living

and

better

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bharucha, Erach, Textbook of Environment
studies,

2nd

Ed.

Oriental

Black

Swan

publication 2013.
Morgan, Monroe, Environmental Helath 3rd
Ed. Cengage learning, 2002.
www.google.com
www.wikipedia.com

SAMPLE QUESTIONNAIRE
1.

What is the concept of Health in your view?

a) Physical fitness
b) Mental well being
c)

Absence of disease

d) Physical mental & social well being

2.

Do you exercise?
a) No Exercise

b) less

then

hr/ week
c)

Less than 2 hr/week

d) more

hr/week
3.

Which forms of exercise you prefer?

a) Walking
c)

4.

Swimming

b) Running
d) Work out

Your attitude about balance diet?

a) casual
c)

care free

b) concerned
d) deeply

concerned
5.

Do you wash your hands with soap?

a) always
c)

6.

only at home

b) often
d) at times

How often do you take fast food?

then2

a) daily

b) once in a week

c)

d) more

twice in a week

than

two

times/week
7.

opinion about weight of your body?

a) healthy
c)

8.

b) under weight

slightly overweight d) overweight

When you fell ill?

a) last one month
c)

one year ago

b) six month ago

d) more

than

one

year ago
9.

What was nature of disease?

a) water borne

b) air borne

c)

d) related

life style related

pollution
10. How you rate your municipality?
a) good

b) satisfactory

c)

d) poor

not bad

to

noise

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.

Environmental health
1.1 Community Health
1.2 Relationship between environment and health
1.2.1 Genetic influences
1.2.2 Behavioral influences
1.2.3 Environmental influences

2.

Health problems related to food

3.

Health problems related to water

3.1 Chemical hazards
3.2 Biological hazards
3.3 Developmental activates & diseases

4.

Communicable diseases

5.

Air pollution and its effect on health

6.

Noise and its effect on health

7.

Stress and its effect on health

7.1 Environmental stress factors
7.2 Stress-related diseases

8.

Radiation and its effect on health

9.

Cancer and the environment

10. Smoking alcohol and drugs

11. Role of information technology
12. Particulars of houses surveyed
13. Sample questionnaire
14. Discussion
15. Conclusion
16. Bibliography