Global and Environmental Health Issue

Global and
Environmental Health
Issue

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
PART 1............................................................................................................................................1
Driving forces, pressure and effects relevant to South Australia and food safety issue........1
Social, political and economic influences on issues which are not being captured by the
DPSEEA framework..............................................................................................................3
PART 2............................................................................................................................................4
Ways of management of environmental health issue along with role of an existing health
agencies and community group..............................................................................................4
Suggestions to address gap in current policy and management for food safety issue............5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Global and environmental health issues refers all those diseases which mainly occur due to
natural resources pollution like water, soil, air pollution, chemical exposure, climate change and
ultraviolet radiation which contribute more than 100 disease Frumkin, (2016). This present study
is going to show some driving forces, pressure and effects related to food safety issue and their
impacts on health. Further, it will also show some effective ways and policies of managing
environmental health issues for improving living standard and overall health quality of people.
PART 1
Driving forces, pressure and effects relevant to South Australia and food safety issue
In the context of food and safety environmental health issue it can be said that food poisoning
and this issue is becoming very serious for South Australian as the largest number of cases has
been recorded. There are several factors which are associated with this environmental health
issue and for knowing driving forces and effects relevant to this it can be better understood with
DPSEEA framework which is as like pressure-state-impact response framework Boylan &
et.al., (2018).
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Figure 1: Driving forces-pressure-state-exposure-effects-action framework
Sources: Driving force and Effects of Food Safety Issues, (2020)
As per this framework some pressures and driving forces are being identified such as:
water, population growth. So, overall it can be said that one of the main pressure which is
affecting this health issues is human activities like waste release, state of ambient environmental
quality or lack of resource availability, impacts having because of ambient consequences on
well-being and policies response can solved out this issue like education awareness, hazard
management and policy implementation .
Driving forces
Population growth rate: It is one of the main driving force of food safety issue in South
Australia. For managing food and maintaining it and providing food to all people, food handlers
add some non-nutritional values of products in it while preparing. Lack of resources of managing
quality is also one of the main force because it is increasing unemployment rate and due to poor
economy, it becomes difficult in investing in technologies.
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