Detail one specific environmental health issue that urbanization poses and that interests you

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(Example: hazardous material management and birth defects). Use this week’s readings and other outside sources to form your discussion post. Urbanization has been the global theme of the 21th century and its benefits and consequences are evident today. Urbanization can cause adverse environmental effects through various ways; rural-urban migration that prompts faster and unplanned development which leads to depletion of resources and pollution of the environment as is with the case of China (Li et al. Subsequently this leads to health issues among the population. For populations in the USA and China many adults and even children are greatly affected by this respiratory disease. It is estimated that at least 20 million in the US among them 6 million children are affected by asthma from poor air consumption (PSR, 2009).

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Despite leaders having established the implications of air pollution and gas emissions on the global arena, it has proven difficult to contain this environmental issue because it is hard for conventions or environmental global bodies to carry out the execution of environmental strategies meant to curb pollution. Discuss an example of an infectious disease (other than Chagas and Dengue fever).  How does environmental health impact the disease? How does the actions of humans impact the disease? Be sure to include how urbanization has improved or worsened the disease and any successful prevention methods or solutions to stopping the disease. I do think that urbanization has had both positive and negative impacts on the spread of the disease (Neiderud, 2015). With urbanization, there is development in the area of science and technology.

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