NUR 431 Week 2 Discussion 2: Health-Promoting Activities

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Week 2 Discussion 2: Health-Promoting Activities

Instructions: Respond to the following discussion question:

Identify 3 ways in which you personally contribute to the contamination of your environment and 3 ways

in which you can change your own behavior to become more protective of the environment. How are these

changes health-promoting activities?

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The week begins on Monday (Day 1) and ends on Sunday (Day 7). Your initial response to the discussion question is due by Day 3 (Wednesday), and you have until Day 7 (Sunday) at 11:59 p.m. (EST) to respond to at least one peer’s post and the instructors additional question.

The response to a peer and the instructors additional question must be on a different day than your initial post.  Therefore, you will post on at least two different days during the online week.

You will need to include one reference with an in-text citation in your initial post

Solution

Week 2 Discussion 2: Health-Promoting Activities

Contamination of the environment refers to the process of making the surrounding dirty and unhealthy. The contamination of the environment occurs when we place harmful substances into the environment at a faster rate than they can be decomposed, dispersed, or even stored in a form that is harmless to the surrounding. The following are some of the behaviors that can make me contribute to the contamination of the environment. To begin with, incorrect disposal of waste products is bound to make me contribute substantially to the contamination of the environment. This behavior leads to water, and soil pollution depending on where the waste is placed. The use of detergents also leads to water pollution which threatens aquatic life. Relatively, excessive use of domestic water that is bound to become sewage contributes to water pollution (Campbell, Greenberg, Mankikar, & Ross, 2016). Thus, if I were to use water in an unregulated manner both at home and in my place of work, I am likely to contribute to the contamination of the environment where the water is disposed of……

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