Abstract
Ethics in the prevention of environmental pollution is very important and Pollution has varying impacts on the human health and the environment
that humans live in. People could die or get sick if exposed to these
pollutants such as heavy metals including lead or mercury and
radioactive compounds including alpha, beta, and gamma radiation. The
environment could further impose life-threatening conditions because of
disrupted natural environmental processes. The health sector has an obligation to consider the ethical implications of the major determinants of health, since causes for inequity or violation of human dignity may originate from outside the health sector. Major determinants include the political system, economic factors, demographic changes, cultural diversity including the role of women, global ecosystem sustainability, technological advances and as a consequence the changing pattern of disease. Air pollutants were associated to several effects on children's health and is very important because is wide spectrum in the world. Second subjects are food and water in some of countries so, health organizations are responsible in these means. That environmental pollution has a moral connection (non-malefficience) that is one of the accepted principles of world ethics.
The main purpose of this paper the phenomenon of ethical roots of environmental pollution is discussed.
Author(s): Seyed Reza Mousavi, Seyed Mahdi Mousavi