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Abstract. Soil has a considerable effect on human health, whether those effects are positive or negative, direct or indirect. Soil is an important source of nutrients in our food supply and medicines such as antibiotics. However, nutrient imbalances and the presence of human pathogens in the soil biological community can cause negative effects ...
Soils also host pathogen organisms, which may pose a serious risk to human health and the environment, exacerbated by imbalances in soil health (Oliver and Gregory, 2015). WHO estimates that around of 24 percent of the global population is affected by soil-transmitted helminths (parasitic worms), affecting primarily poorest communities without sanitary measures ( Figure 18 ).
Introduction. Soils are important for human health in a number of ways. Approximately 78% of the average per capita calorie consumption worldwide comes from crops grown directly in soil, and ...
Jun 22, 2020 · Since antiquity, it has been recognized that certain properties of soils have negative effects on human health. 13,14 Hence, it should not be surprising that, rather than recognizing what soil health does for human health, a majority of health care and public health practitioners only consider what soils do to human health. This includes causing disease through exposures to soil-borne toxins ...
- Eric C Brevik, Lindsey Slaughter, Bal Ram Singh, Joshua J Steffan, David Collier, Paul Barnhart, Pau...
- 2020
Jun 13, 2024 · The microbiome connects to human health through its effects on the productivity and nutrient density of crops and its role as an important source of compounds for treating human disease. The soil microbiome is also home to many pathogens to human and interacts with soil contaminants that can pose risks to human health. A committee of the ...
Dec 4, 2020 · The report found that soil pollution has an adverse impact on food security in two ways –it can reduce crop yields due to toxic levels of contaminants, and crops grown in polluted soils are unsafe for consumption by animals and humans. It urged governments to help reverse the damage and encouraged better soil management practices to limit ...
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Jun 30, 2023 · Indeed, this is recognized through the concept of ‘one health’, the soil-plant-animal-human-planetary health continuum (Singh et al., 2017). First and foremost, soil provides 98.8% of the calories consumed by humans worldwide, with human health and survival therefore entirely dependent upon soil.
