Influences in environmental quality of life in Mozambique

Abstract

Mozambique is a country rich in renewable natural resources of great economic importance. This article aims to meet its main environmental problems and its consequences on health and quality of life of the population. Environmental problems are restricted to specific areas and include pressure on natural resources utilization resulting from the migration of populations, the indiscriminate slaughter of wildlife, smuggling of ivory and exploitation of other goods of high commercial value observed during the civil war, overexploitation of commercial timber, deforestation, poor quality and limited availability of water, industrial pollution and degradation of air quality. As consequence, the population of affected areas has suffered with environmental degradation particularly in urban and peri-urban areas, coupled with high level of poverty which are crucial for the epidemiological picture of infectious and parasitic diseases presented.