How the Human body Interacts
The human body interacts with many factors. They interact with other human beings, with the climate and region they live in, and with other species or organisms.
How the Environment Affects the Human Body: One of the main connections of the human body is with the environment which a person lives in. The climate, pollution, and other factors of the environment affects the human body greatly. According to healthypeople.gov, "the interactions with the environment affect quality of life, years of healthy lives lived, and health disparities. Environmental health consists of preventing or controlling disease, injury, and disability related to interactions between people and their environment. There are 6 themes that highlights an element of the environment that affect human health, which includes outdoor air quality, surface and ground water quality, toxic substances and hazardous waste, homes and communities, climate change, and global environmental health. Poor outdoor air quality, or air pollution, is linked to premature death, cancer, and long-term damage to respiratory and cardiovascular system. Surface and ground water quality concerns apply to both drinking and recreational water and if contaminated by infectious agents or chemicals can cause mild to severe illness. If exposed to toxic substances and hazardous waste, can cause serious illness or even death. People spend most of their time at work or at home and, depending on your community and home, you can be exposed to indoor pollution, inadequate heating and sanitation, structural problems, electrical and fire hazards, lead-based paint hazards. Climate change is a big environmental factor that is projected to impact sea level, patterns of infectious diseases, air quality, and severity of natural disasters like floods, droughts, and storms. Lastly there is overall global environmental health like contamination of our bodies of water, amount of fresh water, sanitary systems around the world, etc."
How Other Humans Affect the Human Body: When a person is sick, it can be contagious. If something is contagious, it means that it can spread to another person or multiple people. You are around people all the time, everyday. You can catch diseases from your peers or just from people that have the same environment as you. Wwwnc.cdc.gov mentioned, "two main types of illnesses that you may be able to spread easily to another person are respiratory illnesses (those that affect your breathing) and foodborne illnesses (those spread by eating, drinking, or putting something in your mouth that has been contaminated)." Your parents can also affect your health. They could have passed down a genetic disorder to you or any of their offspring. You are just born with the disease or disorder. According to kidshealth.org, "heredity is the passing of genes from one generation to the next. You inherit your parents' genes. Heredity helps to make you the person you are today. " If your parents have a genetic disease or disorder, maybe from a mutation, if it is heredity you can also obtain the same disease or disorder.
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How Other Species or Organisms Affect the Human Body: According to doh.wa.gov, "a zoonotic disease is any disease that animals contain can be transmitted to humans. Some examples include rabies, anthrax, West Nile virus, and many more." Bacteria, which is also an organism and a living thing can also cause illness to a human. It has been proven that "bacteria are single-celled microorganisms that thrive in many different types of environments. Some varieties live in extremes of cold or heat. Others make their home in people's intestines, where they help digest food. Most bacteria cause no harm to people, but there are exceptions which include strep throat, tuberculosis, urinary tract infections, and many more." (Steckelberg) Viruses which is also a living organism can affect the human body. Research shows that "viruses are even smaller than bacteria and require living hosts — such as people, plants or animals — to multiply. Otherwise, they can't survive. When a virus enters your body, it invades some of your cells and takes over the cell machinery, redirecting it to produce the virus. Some include chicken pox, AIDS, common colds, and more." (Steckelberg)
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