Awareness of People About the Effects of Light Intensity on Blood Pressure and Heartbeats (A Case Study: Yoon Al-Jawa Town)

Abstract

This study aims to know the awareness of people about the effect of light intensity on blood pressure and heartbeats (A case study: Yoon Al-Jawa town), What is the impact of bright lighting on people's health? and What negative consequences can radiation have on human health? This is done by two methods. First method: taking two samples, the first sample aged between 20 years and 26 years, and the second sample is Children aged between 5-12 years. for the two samples, we change the intensity of light from 3 lux up to 953lux. For the first sample, the blood pressure is varying from 101/85 the hearts beat 81beats for low intensity and 130/89, and the heartbeat is 96 beats for high intensity. For the second sample, the blood pressure varies from 103/65 and the hearts beat 87beats for low intensity and 117/85, and the hearts beat is 99 beats for high intensity. The second method: is a survey of a random sample (362). The survey contained two parts: part one is the effects of light on people's health. The second is about the psychological effect of light. Most agree that light Regulates the biological rhythm, artificial light affects their health, and it is responsible for some diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and depression, there is a link between the level of melatonin and diabetes, and exposure to blue light causes migraines and ultraviolet rays cause skin cancer and direct exposure to orange light helps to attract attention, excitement.