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Impact of Air Pollution on Human Health

Learn about the impact of air pollution on respiratory and cardiovascular systems. Understand how polluted air affects your body and discover ways to protect yourself. Check air quality indexes online and with smartphone apps to stay informed. Protect yourself with tips like limiting exposure, using air cleaners, and avoiding burning trash.

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Impact of Air Pollution on Human Health

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  1. Impact of air pollution on human health

  2. What's something that you do all day, every day, every minute no matter where you are? a) Think about cartoons b) Blink c) Breath

  3. What's something that you do all day, every day, every minute no matter where you are? a) Think about cartoons b) Blink c) Breath

  4. Respiratory system We have about 600 million alveoli and we can cover a tennis court if we could extend all our alveoli!

  5. We need breathing air to be alive The air contains oxygen, and this is essential for our organism the way that the oxygen is introduced in the organism is through the lungs, through the respiratory system We breathe nearly 25,000 times per day, taking in nearly 10,000 liters of air

  6. Apart from breathing, what's something that you do all day, every day, every minute no matter where you are?

  7. Yes, it is pump blood all over your body thanks to a muscle which is called HEART

  8. Cardiovascular system If you were to lay out all of the arteries, capillaries and veins in one adult, end-to-end, they would stretch about 100,000 kilometres!

  9. The heart is responsible for pumping blood to the cells carrying oxygen and collecting waste through the arteries and veins • The heart takes less than 60 seconds to pump blood to every cell in your body • The heart beats about 3 billion times during an average lifetime.

  10. How small is PM? Source: https://www.epa.gov/pmcourse/what-particle-pollution

  11. Healtheffects of airpollution

  12. Healtheffects of airpollution

  13. When we breathe polluted, dangerous substances, for example: particulate matter enter our . Then goes into theand ! air heart air lungs brain

  14. When we breathe pollutedair,dangerous substances, for example: particulate matter enter our lungs. Then goes into theheartand brain! WELL DONE!

  15. After getting into theit may cause many serious diseases: for example, cancer! Inaddition to serious diseases, when theis polluted, we cough, we have a runny nose and our hurt. air body air eyes

  16. After getting into thebodyit may cause many serious diseases: for example, cancer! Inaddition to serious diseases, when theairis polluted, we cough, we have a runny nose and our eyeshurt. WELL DONE!

  17. IS THE AIR TODAY POLLUTED?

  18. The air quality can be checked: - online, for example at: http://airindex.eea.europa.eu/ - via smartphone applications It's worth checking what air we have today, because when it's bad, we have to be careful!

  19. AQI (Air Quality Index) It can help you plan activities that protect your health, such as: Avoid polluted areas reducing the exposure Walkers, runners, and bikers can reduce their exposure by planning times and routes that avoid busy roads Check the AIQ before do exercise, hard work or other strenuous activities • How can I check it? • http://airindex.eea.europa.eu/

  20. Protect yourself Good or bad air quality in your region, go for GREEN!!

  21. 5 Tips toProtect Yourself from Unhealthy Air Limit the exposure to smog trying to avoid the most air polluted areas. Stay in the house and do ventilate when the air is very polluted. Consider buying an air cleaner. Have a supply of professional dust proof masks on hand. Don't burn trash, bad quality coal or humid wood. These are major sources of particle pollution in many parts of the countries.

  22. THANK YOU FOR COOPERATION! NOW YOU KNOW HOW AIR POLLUTION AFFECTS YOUR BODY AND YOU CAN PROTECT YOURSELF!

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