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M1.5 Environmental Exposures Home Assessment

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The questions regarding the exposure home assessment are really important in which it gives us an idea about  chemical and physical agents in the environment can produce a wide range of adverse health consequences. All the physical and chemical agents that we have in our homes can be environmental risk factor if we don't know how to use it or how to notice the adverse affect that can produce. Old homes need well assessment , cause they can be hazardous to our health like smoking and radon which consider as risk factor and cause cancer, old home which built before 1940 have lead paint which consider risk factor if ingested by children and pets and also can affect the gardens as well. Living in basement have risk factors like lack of light ( sunlight exposure) which helps to kill many kinds of bacteria, decrease the humidity, sterilize the area, lack of proper ventilation in the basement helps bad smell, humidity, in addition the basement will provide attraction for...