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Environmental quality of health issue in our organization
The environmental quality issue is among the problems that are affecting the corporate world today. There is pollution in the environment that has resulted in effects on the economy of the country. Our organization is affected both directly and indirectly about poor environmental conservation. There is a lot of emissions of pollutants, such as fumes that have resulted in danger to human health. Air pollution has become one of the causes of cancer, global warming, and the death of plants (Ben-Assuli,2015). Climatic conditions change drastically, leading to extreme conditions that do not support the activities of the organization.
The organization depends heavily on human labor that is affected by environmental changes. There is a rise in diseases such as tuberculosis that has resulted in a dirty environment. An average of three employees are hospitalized due to suffering from tuberculosis; this has led to low work outputs that affect the organization's growth and development towards achieving its mission and vision (Hoflerat el, 2016). When employees get ill, some activities become standstill without being tackled. There is work that is left uncovered, resulting in slow progress in the organization.
Water pollutions is another effect that has degraded the progress of appraisals on fishery projects. The organization is not able to start such projects since the central resource of the project is being affected. The organization suffers in ensuring that it has covered all the effects that can cause damage to the projects so that they can commence launching actual plans, which is a costly process (Mozley, 2017). Environmental health concerns should be addressed globally because they not only affect that particular place that pollutants are being discharged but also it affects all areas despite the location of the disposal. The organization will suffer to protect its workers, plus ensuring projects are run smoothly.
Impacts of Environmental quality health issue data in our organization
Below is the data that shows how our organization has been profoundly affected by environmental quality issues that are being addressed by the organization. The following are the most common diseases that were noticed by the organization affecting most employees.
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Disease |
Number of employees affected per year |
Cost per year on solving the problem |
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Tuberculosis |
10 |
$189.7 |
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Typhoid |
17 |
$291.2 |
|
Cancer |
4 |
$300.2 |
Data above shows how the organization has spent to help its employees from the diseases that have been causing a lot of impact on it's to the organization.
How Other organizations are addressing environmental quality health care issue
Other organizations have set movements on helping solve ecological problems that are current inhibiting growth in organizations. The changes are to creating awareness on the importance of having a conducive environment that will support the development of projects and workers from being affected (Nelson at el, 2016). There are also social services that some organizations have launched by ensuring that their employees are tested and checked frequently over illness so that they can prevent effects at the early stage. Organizational consultants are helpful; they make work easier. There is the formation of acts by governments that protect the pollutions, such as a clean water act that ensures companies and organizations do not discharge pollutants into the water bodies without having a permit of disposal. Once the legislations have been mishandled, there are penalties that the defying organization will be subjected to. Through this process, the environment will be protected.
Non-governmental organizations have also played their role to help fill the gap of researching to facilitate in making policies that will help build diversity on the everyday actions towards environmental conservation. They are also set programs that will help in the funding process that will help teach citizens on the importance of having a conducive environment that will support development.
Strategies that are used to address the organizational impact on the environmental quality health issue and its consequences
Organizations have set up policies that will help in improving standards of environmental conservations, such as making crusades against environmental discharges that will lead to long term effects. Organizations have set sanctions and policies that should be followed so that they can regulate disposals into the water bodies. There is a recycling policy for waste products. This will protect the environment from being exposed. It will also help in making other products that will be productive to the firm’s development. Governments have set policies that will help to enact control strings in environmental maintenance; these policies will help to make changes in our environment and stabilize the conservation of the environment (Wheeler at el 2015).
The policies will affect our organization positively by helping us avoid mechanisms that will affect our health and environment negatively. Our organization will keep in line with the sanctions and policies that have been set to work together with other companies so that our environment can be set to standards that favor human survival.
Reference
Ben-Assuli, O. (2015). Electronic health records, adoption, quality of care, legal and privacy issues, and their implementation in emergency departments. Health policy, 119(3), 287-297.Retrieved from:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168851014003297
Hofler, L., & Thomas, K. (2016). The transition of new graduate nurses to the workforce challenges and solutions in the changing health care environment. North Carolina medical journal, 77(2), 133-136.Retrieved from:http://www.ncmedicaljournal.com/content/77/2/133.short
Mozley, C. (2017). Towards quality care: outcomes for older people in care homes. Routledge. Extracted from:https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351144360
Nelson, R., & Staggers, N. (2016). Health Informatics-E-Book: An Interprofessional Approach. Elsevier Health Sciences. Retrieved from:https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=9035282443775522870&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&hl=en
Santamouris, M., &Kolokotsa, D. (2015). On the impact of urban overheating and extreme climatic conditions on housing, energy, comfort, and environmental quality of vulnerable populations in Europe. Voltage and Buildings, 98, 125-133.Retrieved from:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378778814007877
Wheeler, B. W., Lovell, R., Higgins, S. L., White, M. P., Alcock, I., Osborne, N. J., ... &Depledge, M. H. (2015). Beyond greenspace: an ecological study of population general health and indicators of natural environment type and quality. International journal of health geographics, 14(1), 17.Retrieved from:https://ij-healthgeographics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12942-015-0009-5