Types Of Environmental Pollution & Its Effect JSS2 Physical & Health Education Lesson Note

TYPES OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

The environment simply refers to our immediate surroundings

Environmental pollution is the contamination of the environment with harmful, toxic, and hazardous substances. Environmental pollution lowers the quality of the air, the land, and the water.

Pollution: This can be defined as the release of substances that contaminate the environment and make living difficult or unpleasant.

Types of Environmental Pollution

Environmental pollution consists of four major types, namely:-

1. Air Pollution
2. Water Pollution
3. Land or soil pollution
4. Noise Pollution

Evaluation

1. What is Environmental pollution
2. List types of environmental pollution

EFFECTS OF POLLUTION ON ENVIRONMENTAL AND PERSONAL HEALTH

1. Discomfort and harm to human life
2. Destruction of wildlife
3. Polluted drinking water can cause cholera or typhoid infections and also diarrhea.
4. Excessive noise pollution can influence psychological health
5. Sleeping disorder
6. Degradation of farmlands
7. Destruction or  unhealthy growth of plants and animals
8. Respiratory diseases like tuberculosis
9. Poor visibility due to discharge of smoke or dust 
10. Health problems such as deafness, fatigue, and hypertension.

PREVENTIVE MEASURES AGAINST ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

1. Ensure good health habits
2. Enacting laws against pollution
3. Refrain from throwing litter into streams, lakes, rivers, or seas.
4. Avoid using dangerous chemicals 
5. Educate people
6. Legislation against noise
7. Reduce your waste
8. Store all liquid chemicals and waste spill-proof containers
9.  By locating industries or factories far away from residential areas
10.     Avoid bush burning

Evaluation

1. State four preventive measures against environmental pollution 

 FRESH APPROACH TO SCHOOL HEALTH PROGRAMME

The acronym FRESH means focusing resources on effective school health.

This is a skilled-based program activity approach implemented at the school health program level. It is aimed at improving the health status and educational level of school-age children: especially the  most deprived group of children in the developing world

To establish school health programs, there must be adequate planning, administration, and evaluation.  These include:

1. Adequate funding and availability of facilities 
2. There should be a School health coordinator who will be in charge of coordination of the program.
3.  All the stakeholders must work as a team
4. There must be monitoring and evaluation of health needs and the effectiveness of school health programs.