Pursuasive Speech of value
Channel: Danielle Hesnault
Date: 2016-03-14

Title: Health Issues with the environment and their affects on ourselves.

Topic: Environmental Health Issues

Specific Purpose Statement: To discuss environmental health issues.

Thesis Statement: We can all learn ways to make our environment healthier.

Introduction:
Humans interact with the environment constantly. These interactions affect quality of life, years of healthy life lived, and health disparities. The environments air we breathe, food we eat, and the climate around us impacts our health. Environmental health consists of preventing or controlling disease, injury, and disability related to the interactions between people and their environment. (Environmental Health, 2016). Environmental health involves understanding the impacts of environmental and human-made hazards and protecting health and ecological systems against these hazards.

Body:

I. Types of Environmental Health issues
A. Physical Hazards (Agius, 2007)
B. Chemical Hazards (Agius, 2007)
C. Biological Hazards (Agius, 2007)
D. Cultural Hazards
1. Physical processes that occur naturally in the environment. (Agius, 2007)
2. Both Natural and human-made chemicals in the environment. (Agius, 2007)
3. Ecological interactions between living things. (Agius, 2007)
4. Social, result from your location, occupation and behavioral choices.
a) Examples of physical hazards are tornadoes because they destroy land, houses, buildings etc. Ultraviolet Radiation because it damages DNA and can cause cancer.
b) Examples of chemical hazards are disinfectants used in our houses, pesticides that are used in our yards and ground, mercury and lead.
c) Examples of biological hazards are viruses, bacterial infections and tuberculosis.
d) Examples of cultural hazards are cigarette smoke, diet and exercise habits.


II. How to decrease environmental health issues?
A. Make sure to keep washing hands, toys, fruits and vegetables and surfaces around your house to reduce potential chemical exposures. (Department of Health, 2014)
B. Wash fruits and vegetables before eating them. Rinse off meat products before you cook it. Try to get the skin of fish off before cooked, because some contaminants concentrate in fatty tissues. (Department of Health, 2014)
C. Keep control of dust and residues so that nothing gets contaminated like clothing, windowsills and toys. (Department of Health, 2014)
D. Try to keep as much chemicals out of your house so that you have clean air in the environment around you.

III. How environmental health issues affect others and myself?
A. Having clean water to drink and to clean with is important. I had to have a filter for our water system to have clean water to drink because of the bacteria growth in our town water system.
B. The pollutants we put in our environment affect us because we breathe that air. 
C. In order to stop polluting in the environment we have to recycle plastics, instead of throwing it away or littering, also using fewer plastics.
D. Using pesticides and other chemicals on our yards isn’t good for the environment or us. 
E. Those pesticides don’t just go in the ground it gets in us also. The more we use those chemicals the more we are hurting the environment and ourselves.

Conclusion:
With talking about environmental health issues, decreasing environmental health issues and the issues affecting others and myself I hope you decide to change some stuff to help the environment. Finally the more you reduce unnecessary exposures to commonly used chemicals and other hazardous substances, the healthier the environment becomes for you and your children. (Department of Health, 2014). I hope you learned what to avoid, in order to making our environment and us healthier. 


References

Environmental Health. (2016, April 03). Retrieved March 05, 2016, from https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/environmental-health

Environmental Health. (n.d.). Retrieved March 05, 2016, from http://www.phi.org/focus-areas/?focus_area=environmental-health
@2016 Public Health Institute

Center for Disease Control and Prevention. (2016, February 19). Retrieved March 05, 2016, from http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/hsb/

Agius, R. (2007, May). What effects can the Environment have on Health? Retrieved March 05, 2016, from http://www.agius.com/hew/resource/introeh.htm

Department of Health. (2014, July). Retrieved March 05, 2016, from https://www.health.ny.gov/environmental/children/reducing_environ_exposures.htm

Remoundou, K., & Koundouri, P. (2009, July 31). Environmental Effects on Public Health: An Economic Perspective. Retrieved March 05, 2016, from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2738880/

Environment Affecting Human Health - Sustainable Baby Steps. (2009-2016). Retrieved March 05, 2016, from http://www.sustainablebabysteps.com/environment-affecting-human-health.html