Title : Environmental Health Impact Assessment (EHIA) process proposal for efficient and effective deaddiction centres in India
Abstract:
An environmental health impact assessment (EHIA) is proposed for an effective and efficient deaddiction system as it is to set the sustainable battle against drug use and alcoholism (1).
It is necessary to build treatment and deaddiction facilities in 272 districts identified as vulnerable based on prevalence of substance abuse, illicit trafficking and access to drugs. The focus is on reaching the youth and high-risk population. Since 125 vulnerable districts out of the 272 districts that do not have integrated rehabilitation centres for addicts for drug dependence treatment including addiction treatment facilities available in All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). It is observed that there is lack of sufficient deaddiction centres, drop-in-centres, efficient institutional treatment, community-based outreach and extension centres for conduction awareness programs including treatments for youth and high-risk populations. The deaddiction facilities should also be provided for screening, assessment, counselling and treatment. The magnitude of substance abuse rate is high as it is estimated that 16 crore alcoholic affected consumers in our country, 19 % were dependent on alcoholic effects , around 5.7 crore consumers requiring treatment, 72 lake drug affected users requiring treatment of cannabis that is the drug consumers obtained from the hemp plant, 60 lakh drug affected users for opium and related addictive drug made from the juice of poppy flowers, and 11 lakh seducers and sedative users who persuade sex including calm and sleepy purposes. It is also observed that here is insufficient funds for community centre extension programs, and institutional health care programs in order to control rehabilitation and deaddiction process in sampled population(7) .
This research note discusses an importance of conducting environmental health impact assessment (EHIA) process for the project proposal of integrated rehabilitation and addiction treatment centres. “Environmental Health Impact Assessment can be defined as the systematic identification and evaluation of the potential health impacts of proposed nuclear power projects, plans, programs, policies or legislative actions relative to the physical -chemical, addiction, biological, cultural, and socioeconomic components of the total environmental health. EHIA which is a specialized deaddiction terminology that is divided into most significant terms, Viz., “environmental health inventory ”, “environmental health impact assessment ” and “ environmental health impact statement”.
The objective of the study and check are to conceptualize strategic environmental health assessment (SEHA) process for the generic, source specific and industrial addiction sector in order to control climate change. Deaddiction organizational planning and decision-making process should include the integrated consideration of technical or engineering, economic, environmental, safety, health, social and sustainability factors to achieve climate sensitivity environment. It is also important to conduct EHIA process study to address psychological and neuroscience impacts.
Psychological impact assessment (PIA) process is the systematic identification and evaluation of potential environmental physiological effects of proposed deaddiction projects , plans, policies, and legislation action that are with mental adverse health effects, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress -strain disorders, damages to mental health impacts including emotional somatic unsafe radioactive exposure cum disorders on human being, animals and plant ecosystem.
Strategic environmental health assessment (SEHA) process has been aimed in order to incorporate environmental quality (EQ) and sustainability factors in to organizational project planning and decisionmaking process. The primary purpose of the SEA process is to encourage the consideration of the addiction, environment, safety, health, social and sustainability factors in organizational planning and decision-making process and to arrive at actions that are compatible (2) .
SEA process protocol has been proposed for the EQ control. The health impacts of projects, plans, programs, or policies should be considered in the organization planning and decision-making process. Because of the importance of these concerns, particularly in developing and developed countries, environmental health impact assessment process is addressed. For certain types of projects such as deaddiction centre , it is necessary to address addiction, behavioral science, psychiatric , psychological, neurological, and physiological impacts on nearby residents and populations for the assessment and mitigation of mental illness in order to assess and mitigate mental health that is environmental health impact assessment and their components such as prediction and assessment of impacts on the air environment, surface water environment, soil and ground water environments, noise environment, biological or ecological environment, habitat based methods, cultural environmental impacts, architectural , historical and archaeological impacts, visual and aesthetic impacts, socioeconomic environmental health impacts including public participation on environmental health impact decision making process (3). The aim of the study is to conceptualize and develop SEHA and SEA processes for the control of climate change and environmental pollution. Social Impact Assessment (SIA) process can be defined as the systematic identification and evaluation of the potential social impacts (effects) of proposed nuclear power projects, plans, programs, or legislative actions such that social considerations are encouraged in project planning process and to arrive at actions that are socially compatible(4). This treaty and official government procedures of SEHA helpful for making much earlier in the decision-making process than EHIA process of psychological impacts and mental health damages on nearby residents(5).
The workers and mothers of young children are at risk of environmental health impacts such as depression, anxiety, psychosomatic, and post-traumatic symptoms about nuclear radiation exposures including stigma impact assessment nearby local residents. It is suggested to mitigate environmental health impacts due to psychological symptoms among village people, power plant workers, and medical program and awareness needed to reduce stigma, integration of psychiatric treatment and medical treatment as the nuclear effect change damage of mental health and psychological impacts on nearby residents (6, 7).
Keywords: alcohol; deaddiction; environment; health.
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