Global and Environmental Health Issues: Air Quality

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Global and Environmental Health Issues
Air Quality

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Table of Contents
Introduction...............................................................................................................................2
Part-1..........................................................................................................................................3
The DPSEEA framework.........................................................................................................3
Social and Economic Influence...............................................................................................4
Part-2..........................................................................................................................................5
Current policies for managing the issue................................................................................5
Recommendations to fill the gaps.........................................................................................5
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................7
References..................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
Due to globalisation and industrialisation, it has become easier for global brands to
expand their operations on an international stage and use natural resources to mass
produce products for a wide range of audience. However, this development has also
resulted in increasing the issue of air pollution since the use of non-renewable resources
resulted in reducing the air quality of different cities (Guttikunda, Goel & Pant, 2014). The
issue of negative air quality is a major issue in India because 14 cities are included in the top
20 list of most polluted cities given by the World Health Organisation (WHO)
(Roychowdhury, 2018). This report will focus on India in order to understand how air quality
is a major environmental health issue in the country. There are different factors due to
which the issue of air pollution is increasing in India which is affecting the quality of air in
both indoors and outdoors. This report will apply the DPSEEA framework on this issue to
understand how it affects the health of individuals in India and identifies the actions taken
by the government to address this issue. This report will evaluate other social, political or
economic influences along with the role of existing health agencies, infrastructure,
stakeholders and legislative measures to address this issue. Lastly, various suggestions will
be made in order to address the gaps in current policy and regulations to address this
environmental health issue.