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VI. Pollution, Health and Quality of Life
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Narration
Industrialization changes human health and thus affects the quality of life, morbidity, mortality, and broader population dynamics. Many industrial processes have the effect of concentrating harmful materials near human settlements.
Web Sites
To view the following Web sites, please go to "See also" below. The Teachers' Corner contains links to suggested Web sites. The College Board neither endorses, controls the content of, nor reviews the external Web sites included here. Please note that following links to external Web sites will open a new browser window. If you discover a link that does not work, please let us know by sending an e-mail to apctechsupport@collegeboard.org.
Atlas of Cancer Mortality
This is a must-see site with many maps viewable or downloadable related to medical geography. The user selects a type of cancer and "Read about it," "See a map," or "Get the data." This site also offers users the ability to create their own maps by selecting parameters from pull-down menus. At the main menu, look at the top of the left frame and select "NCI Atlas Home Page"; then "Go to Atlas"; then "Customize Maps"; finally, "Create Map." A bit convoluted, but worth the journey.
BBC Education -- Quality of Life
Wonderful information with images followed by a test.
East Ural Mountains: Radioactive Area
This site is in English, and contains text and maps made by the emergency committee. The data shows the various nuclear emergencies over many years.
Environmental Risk
This is an interactive map which leads to environmental risk areas across the United States. Some world links.
Environmental Health Maps and Data
Students writing reports on environmental quality issues in the coterminous United States should take advantage of map archives at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). A variety of EPA maps exists for air, water, and land quality topics. The following color maps are available: - Air: Air quality maps for Carbon monoxide, Nitrogen oxides, Ozone, Lead, PM-10, Sulfur dioxide.
- Water: Estuaries, Groundwater, Watersheds, rivers and streams;
- Drinking water, Water supply, Health of U.S. Waters, Fish and wildlife consumption, Water quality standards, Agricultural Runoff, Urban Runoff, Wetland Loss, Pollutant Discharge.
- Land: Landscape types, Forest, Land and Eco-regions, Wetlands, Predominant cover, Agricultural lands, Human settlement, Pesticide use, Agriculture Wetland losses, Toxic and Hazardous Waste Sites, Land and Change, Mortality from cancer.
Health and Health Behavior among Young People (.pdf)
The World Health Organization provides insight into what it learned from a survey of 120,000 school-aged children in 1997-'98. The report will arrive at your computer in Adobe Reader format (a .pdf file).
HIV/AIDS Surveillance Database
This site addresses the AIDS pandemic and HIV seroprevalence among populations in developing countries. The Health Studies Branch, International Programs Center of the Population Division of the U.S. Census Bureau, developed it. Materials can be viewed on-screen, printed, or downloaded. The site is updated twice per year.
Medical Geography Datasets
Many data sets related to health may be found at this miningco.com site. One of the interesting tables is "Life Expectancy Ratings." This page contains a table of 191 countries and has categories for males and females. The table is downloadable to Excel.
Nuclear Weapon Contamination and Health
Global projection view of the effects of nuclear weapons production fallout for the Northern Hemisphere.
Social Indicators of Development
At this site, the World Bank offers insight into the social aspects of economic development. Some data sets available.
U.N. Poverty Page
This page has a number of topics and links which develop a better understanding of poverty around the world and some of the methods being used to reduce poverty.
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