Assignment Help on Environmental Epidemiology

Introduction

Environmental epidemiology focuses on all the ways environmental factors like physical, chemical and biological affect the health of humans to have a deeper understanding of a pollutant. Environmental human risk assessment (EHRA) is the process to understand the characteristics and probability of the negative health effects in humans who may be exposed to a pollutant in any given manner. For the major chunk of the world, fossil fuels are the principal source of energy production, however, new technologies are taking over like solar-powered energy which is renewable in nature and does not impact the environment in any way. 

Research Question

The research will be based on the evidence model based on framing a research question PICO elements include Problem/Patient/Population, Intervention/Indicator, Comparison, Outcome.

The research question based on PICO would be:

Has fossil fuel emission from power plant increased the adverse effects on human health in India and how can they be decreased?

Background Information

The world and its environment are changing rapidly, it is due to the economic globalization and the changes are evident at the bottom level with the quality of air in our surrounding, even though in many growing countries the air quality has been improving because of de-industrialization, adaptation to technologies and strict environmental policies and regulation. Advancements in the sector of epidemiology now suggest that the air that was considered clean is also in the category of pollutants that have an adverse effect on people’s health. In the low and middle-income counties, the relationship between economic growth and declining air quality is strong.  The human factor has always been a concern with the growing economic requirements and industrialization, the industrialization in Europe and North America saw some massive adverse effects on human health due to the decreasing quality of the environment. Industrial expansion was always uncontrolled in the early era and the result was devastating, increased emissions took a toll on human health; however, with the introduction and enforcement of strict government policies, many countries are reversing the damage that they suffered. The primary change in atmospheric composition is because of fossil fuel combustion. In this research, our primary focus is to analyze the fossil fuel emission and its effect on human health in India followed by a strategy to reverse the effects of the damage.