{"id":32059,"date":"2024-11-12T18:30:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=32059"},"modified":"2025-07-11T18:24:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T12:54:44","slug":"lead-exposure-causes-6-trillion-in-economic-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/12-11-2024\/lead-exposure-causes-6-trillion-in-economic-losses","title":{"rendered":"Lead Exposure Causes $6 trillion in Economic Losses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS2\/ Health<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Recent estimates published in The Lancet Public Health highlight the grave repercussions of <strong>lead exposure<\/strong>, a potent neurotoxin, on global health.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About Lead (Pb)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Brief: <\/strong>Lead is a <strong>heavy metal<\/strong> and a naturally occurring element found in the Earth&#8217;s crust.&nbsp; It is <strong>soft, malleable<\/strong>, and has a relatively <strong>low melting point.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sources of Lead Exposure: <\/strong>Industrial Processes like Mining, smelting, manufacturing, recycling.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Product Usage likeLead-acid batteries (largest consumer), paints, pigments, stained glass, ceramics, ammunition.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Water Contamination by leaks from old lead-based plumbing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Health Effects:<\/strong> Brain and nervous system damage, Reduces cognitive abilities and kidney failure.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Over 1.5 million deaths in 2021 due to cardiovascular effects from lead.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Environmental Effect:<\/strong> An increase in lead concentration in soil from 0 ppm to 1000 ppm significantly impacts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Actions to Mitigate Lead Exposure<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>WHO clinical management guidelines<\/strong> for lead exposure.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint:<\/strong> It is a voluntary partnership formed by the <strong>UNEP and the WHO<\/strong> to prevent exposure to lead through promoting the phase-out of paints containing lead.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Banning use of leaded petrol.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: DTE<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent estimates published in The Lancet Public Health highlight the grave repercussions of lead exposure, a potent neurotoxin, on global health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32060,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32059\/revisions\/32060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}