Book contents
- Praise for Toxic Politics
- Toxic Politics
- A Council on Foreign Relations Book
- Toxic Politics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Health and Nonhealth Impacts
- Chapter 1 Health Effects of Environmental Degradation
- Chapter 2 Economic, Sociopolitical, and Foreign Policy Impacts
- Part II The Government Response
- Notes
- Index
Chapter 1 - Health Effects of Environmental Degradation
from Part I - The Health and Nonhealth Impacts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2020
- Praise for Toxic Politics
- Toxic Politics
- A Council on Foreign Relations Book
- Toxic Politics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Health and Nonhealth Impacts
- Chapter 1 Health Effects of Environmental Degradation
- Chapter 2 Economic, Sociopolitical, and Foreign Policy Impacts
- Part II The Government Response
- Notes
- Index
Summary
This chapter looks at China’s environmental crisis and its impacts on public health. In examining the health impacts of air pollution, it highlights ambient PM.25 as the number one killer of all the risk factors for pollution-related mortality in China. Besides air pollution, water and soil pollution also has a significant and independent effect on people’s health. The health impact of pollution is further complicated by exposure to heavy metals such as arsenic and lead. The posited health effects of air, water, and soil pollution are epitomized in the phenomenon of cancer villages. Additional links between the environment and health, including trash and public health, pollution and mental health, pollution and sperm quality, and pollution and antibiotic resistance, are also examined.
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- Toxic PoliticsChina's Environmental Health Crisis and its Challenge to the Chinese State, pp. 25 - 53Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020