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Critically analyse theenvironmental health risks
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
INTRODUCTIONAn environmental hazard is a substance that have potential to threaten the surroundingnatural environment including pollution and natural disasters such as storms and earthquakes. Inthis hazard includes occupational health hazards such as biological, chemical, physical,biomechanical or psychosocial in nature (Frieden, 2013). It also includes traditional hazards ofpoor sanitation water, food and land. The current report provides the detail knowledge andunderstanding about environmental health principles and management strategies to overcomethe impact of environmental risk and hazard. Relevant legal framework like domestic law andlocal law for an Australian mass gathering has been also discussed in this report.MAIN BODYRegular are, all things considered, impacted the quality of society. In case condition is allaround regulated and safe by then there will be less chances of occasion of these diseases.Individuals are required to live in a safe and secured way in the earth with the objective that theycan reduce its damaging impact (Hadad and et.al., 2013). One may state that condition expect afundamental part remembering the true objective to keep up the prosperity and success of people.There are various people living in urban areas than in nation. The internal region is arranged inmore prepared urban regions , there have ghetto structures and old systems. There have high airtainting and non appearance of good open space. People of lower money related status and minority masses will most likely live in urbandomains and more inclined to get restorative scope. Thus, this masses faces checks to mind andgets low quality care. Characteristic prosperity insinuates the control of those parts in the condition that may havemonstrous effect on open physical, mental and social flourishing. Disastrous occasions openpeople to chance by exasperating or undermining to annoy their speedy condition, intenseorganization o environmental prosperity after a destructive occasion.A natural disaster is the major adverse event which occurs due to the natural process of earthsuch as floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and other geologicprocesses. However, environment health hazard includes such factors and situation that cancauses injury, disease and death (Kane and Kane, 2013). While natural disaster occurs then ithugely impact upon large numbers of population within the country. Natural disaster can spoilnatural property as well as individual properly. In the Australia, in the 1974 Cyclone Tracy is
the greatest hurricane to ever hit Australia and wreaked destroy across finished Darwin onchristmas Eve 1974.By the next morning on Christmas Day, by far most of the town's tenantswere absolutely down and out and Darwin was cut off from the world without any strategies forcorrespondence. It wasn't until later toward the night that Canberra and whatever is left of the country ponderedthe tropical twister that took 71 lives. Another case occurred concerning Newcastle Earthquake 1989 in which On 28th December1989 at 10:27am an earth shake assessing 5.6 on the Richter scale hit the waterfront city ofNewcastle. The death toll was 13 people and another 160 were hurt amidst the billions of dollarsof mischief that was caused. The shake could be felt in neighboring regions and tremors were feltas far away as Albury. Disastrously, a noteworthy number of the town's chronicled structures were hurt andlikewise 35,000 homes. The seismic tremor got respect for the building measures the city, asimilar number of lives were lost on account of unsteady structures which couldn't withstand thetremors. As per the research it has been also found that in the Australia disasters are a regular part oflife for communities across the globe. In the Australia there is a long history of natural disastersfrom catastropic bushfires to flooding rains. A disaster occurs while a natural hazard overwhelmsa social systems capability to cope and respond. In the June 1852, queensland flood were one ofthe most devastating in terms of damage to infrastructure and cost. In this disaster, 89 deathshave occurred in the Australia and entire settlement of 250 people destroyed.On the other handon dec 2010 to Jan 2011 Brisbane and SE QLD disaster is another one of the major disasterunder which 35 confirmed death have occurred. In this case, more than 200000 people affectedstate wide.As per the above case it has been seen that these is the natural environmental health hazardwhich happened due to the natural disaster. In order to overcome these kinds of natural disasterin the environmental health, following are some principles which should follow to overcome-
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