LINH NGUYEN Cancer Villages in China I - Labos ULg.
Cao states that China’s air pollution is causing an increase in mortality, rates of hospital admissions, exacerbation of chronic respiratory conditions, and decreased lung function. A test was conducted comparing long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution and mortality in a countrywide representative cohort in China.This is a small village in GuangDong province, China. This village has small population which has 278 people live in 56 houses, and the houses distribute with a half moon pattern. The village is surrounded by mountains on three side, a medium size lake in front of the village, and a small road is the only way for the village to connect with the outside world.Their maps show a concentration of cancer villages lying in Eastern China, with a strong correlation between the high percentage of cancer villages downstream and large industrial activities upstream. One famous example is the Huai River Delta, home to tens of thousands of small.
Cancer village is a nomenclature used for those villages that have unprecedented cancer rates. Average cancer rate in these villages are far above the national cancer rate. In some cases cancer rate supersede the birth rate as in Huangmengying Village of Henan Province.In several other media reports about China's cancer villages, the reporters have identified the people with whom they spoke. This practice has, in some cases, resulted in the sources being.
China now has up to 400 “cancer villages,” and the government only just admitted it China’s “growth at all costs” approach to development has meant industries can spew waste pretty much wherever.
