World Environment Day: How does the environment harm or benefit your health?

2023-06-05 10:00:02

Endocrine disruptors, air and water pollution… The degradation of the environment has an impact on the health of individuals. According to the WHO, “Air pollution alone causes seven million deaths a year. »

According to the WHO, “Air pollution alone causes seven million deaths a year. » Getty Images – Khanchit Khirisutchalual

How to preserve your health despite a polluted environment? What measures are in place to protect populations and deal with pathologies linked to the environment?

• Pr Abdoulaye Leye, Internist, Endocrinologist, Head of the Internal Medicine/Endocrinology-Diabetology Service at the Center Hospitalier National Universitaire de Pikine in the suburbs of Dakar, Teacher at the Faculty of Medicine of Cheikh Anta Diop University from Dakar to Senegal (via report-it the whole show)
• Dr Lucile SESÉ, pulmonologist atAvicennas hospital (AP-HP) and volunteer at the Breath Foundation
• Dr Theo Korchia, head of the psychiatry clinic at the Assistance Publique des Hospitals of Marseilles, lecturer and teacher at the Faculty of Medicine of Aix Marseille. He is also a researcher, currently at McGill University in Montreal.
• Report by Charlie DUPIOT

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