The Environment Plays A Major Role In The Deaths Of Children In Europe
Pollution, dirty water, poor sanitation and poison is the cause of one in three children in the region has met his end. Thus, the conclusion that the results of research presented by Dr. Giorgio Tamburlini at the Institute of Child Health in Trieste (Italy) to the World Health Organization (WHO).
According to a report published by WHO, pollution from burning coal and wood smoke is a cause of death among children the number one in Central Asia and Turkey. In Europe, the death came from the fragility of traffic incidents that cause sejumkah how many children are injured.
“One in three children who died in some European countries may be called due to environmental factors,” said Dr. Giorgio Tamburlini, the leader of this research. WHO report calls for 100,000 children have died and risk another six million lives each year. The victims came from a newborn child until the age of 19 years in 52 countries in Western Europe and Eastern Europe, including parts of several countries of the Soviet Union.
“This report represents the first estimate of the impact on the health of children and adolescents due to environmental factors disejumlah European countries, he said, the reports published in the Lancet medical journal has become one of the discussion during a meeting of senior Agency and Health held in Budapest there are 23-25 juni, Romania.
Without doubt, in time growth factors in child’s environment is very influential. They are threatened because of where they live and they played very little in terms of the environment. Although a number of causes of death vary considerably, but major factors such as Pulos, sanitation and support of clean water is necessary to protect against the risk factors for injury.
Injuries including traffic accidents, falls, violence or suicide, which affected about 75,000 adolescents in the European region in 2001 did. Approximately 23,000 children died during the four years because of pneumonia and a host of other diseases due to air pollution.
The low sanitation to 13 000 children die of diarrhea. “The intervention must be done to reduce the growth of children who are affected by this,” said Dr. Giorgio. The report also mentions a number of areas which should be the main targets are children living on the street and threatened them at high risk for a number of environmental factors.
Dr. Giorgio Tamburlini also said that the results of their study could be a warning that some developing countries to help children and adolescents in a number of risks.
