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Last changed: 17/03/2008
Health and environment go hand in hand. It is obvious that a good environment has a positive effect on human health, yet sometimes unfavourable environmental influences or a subjectively perceived unhealthy environment can make a person ill. In many cases it is not easy to track these interrelationships, and if at all possible, it requires vast amounts of statistics for the effects on a single individual are too negligible and only valid when a large number of subjects are tested. If complaints are registered by people who perceive a connection to the environment, quite often neither the sufferer nor attendant medical staff can determine the actual source of the problem. Sufferers often see the root of the problem as an environment that has been changed or influenced by man.
Sometimes there are clear and simple causal relationships, such as the effects of heat waves in the summer months on senior citizens, who seem to suffer especially in this regard.
The selected health effects of environmental influences presented here are merely examples of the many various possible or feasible health effects traceable to environmental impact.
One thing must always hold true, however: before the environment is made to blame for poor health, a complete physical check-up must first seek to determine and find—as is more frequently the case- other causes for the condition.