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Great start Dolkar and some interesting questions: "four main diseases would be; diarrhea, lower respiratory infection, unintentional injuries, and malaria". I would be very interested to read what your group finds out and discusses about respiratory infections as this reads as if it might be due to environment. I wonder why they used the term "unintentional injuries"!  

Diseases and Environment; There is a link?

In this article i was reading by larry west, he says that according to a report by the World Health Organization (WHO) nearly a quarter of all diseases are linked to the environment. the four main diseases would be; diarrhea, lower respiratory infection, unintentional injuries, and malaria. what do you think the factors would be to get these diseases? where do you think they would most commonly occur? in the article, they mention preventative measures that all seem obvious to us, but what other measures do you think we could take to prevent diseases from our environment? according to the article, if these steps were taken the amount of deaths every year linking to diseases caused by the environment would be drastically reduced.
read the article here: http://environment.about.com/b/2007/05/10/nearly-a-quarter-of-all-disease-linked-to-environment-by-who-report.htm