Environmental and Global Health Issues

Running head: GLOBAL AND ENVIRONMENT HEALTH ISSUES
Environmental and Global Health Issues
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1GLOBAL AND ENVIRONMENT HEALTH ISSUES
Executive Summary
Vector borne diseases are rampant in certain parts of the world and this has led to the spread to
the spread of diseases that man is yet to find its cure. Ebola is one such disease which has
brought the humanity to its knees. The beyond the limit invasion of the human in to the realms of
nature has resulted in to humans contracting diseases that are not just new but also hard to find
its cure. This study emphasizes on the analysis of Ebola with the help of DPSEEA framework
which is developed by WHO.

2GLOBAL AND ENVIRONMENT HEALTH ISSUES
Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
DPSEEA framework........................................................................................................................3
Ebola analysis based on the DPSEEA framework..........................................................................4
Gaps in the DPSEEA framework....................................................................................................5
Ebola management...........................................................................................................................6
Role of the existing health agencies and the others.........................................................................7
Suggestions to address the gaps in the management of the health issue.........................................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
Reference.......................................................................................................................................10

3GLOBAL AND ENVIRONMENT HEALTH ISSUES
Introduction
Vector-borne diseases can be described as the infection that is spread or transmitted by an
infected certain species that carry the virus within their body. The vector can be a bat, fly, tick
and mosquito. Weather plays a major role in influencing the population of the vectors,
abundance, distribution, habitat suitability. Temporal pattern and the intensity of the vector
activity all over the year. Not just the climatic factors but also the land use pattern, density of
host and habitat destruction plays a major role in the spread of diseases. In this study, Ebola
disease is used as vector-borne disease and Africa is selected as the geographical location where
the impact of the Ebola is noticed (Altizer et al., 2013). The study also deals with the usage of
the DPSEEA framework for the analysis of the disease; how Ebola is managed by the health and
the other agencies and the suggestions that address the gaps in the current policy and the
management of the environmental health issue.
DPSEEA framework
The World Health Organization developed a framework called the DPSEEA framework,
and this framework is the basis of the development of the environmental health indicators.
Initially, the DPSIR was recognized and then it was done by recognising environmental state
through the exposures to major health effects. The DPSSEA framework stands for the driving
forces, pressure, state, exposure, health effects and the actions. The framework takes into account
the various environmental and the health issues and problems that are associated with the driving
forces like the technological change, economic development, population growth and the policies
underlying the above mentioned (Gentry-Shields & Bartram, 2014).