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 | | From: | Mark Addinall | | Subject: | Re: Fresh Water required. | | Date: | Sun, 26 Dec 2004 23:25:20 GMT |
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> eunometic wrote:
>> "Addinall" wrote in message
>> news:1102989703.178915.38540@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>> >
>> > Ned Latham wrote:
>> > > "polpak" wrote in
> <41bcdb2f$0$13948$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>:
>> > > > "Gregory Toomey" wrote:
>> > > > > Philip Heggie wrote:
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > The Nanny state of Howard blackmails aborigines
>> > > > > > he implies are dirty people to wash their faces in exchange
>> > > > > > for petrol bowsers. Next Howard proclaims aborigines
>> > > > > > hang themselves in custody because they don't have
>> > > > > > dirt to roll around in.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > What's you solution to tricoma then?
>> > > >
>> > > > A lot more chlorinated/Salt-Water and properly maintained
> community
>> > > > swimming pools - the health benefit should justify the budget.
>> >
>> > Here here.
>>
>> Who will maintain the pools?
>
> A pool attendant perhaps?
>
> ------------------
> Benefits of swimming pools in two remote Aboriginal communities in
> Western Australia: intervention study
> Deborah Lehmann, epidemiologist,1 Mary T Tennant, research assistant,1
> Desiree T Silva, paediatrician,1 Daniel McAullay, research officer,1
> Francis Lannigan, otorhinolaryngologist,2 Harvey Coates,
> otorhinolaryngologist,2 Fiona J Stanley, director1
> Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia,
> Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, PO Box 855, West Perth,
> WA 6872, Australia 2 Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Subiaco,
> WA 6008, Australia
> Abstract
>
> Objective To determine the health impact of swimming pools built with
> the aim of improving quality of life and reducing high rates of
> pyoderma and otitis media.
>
> Design Intervention study assessing prevalence of ear disease and skin
> infections before and at six monthly intervals after opening of
> swimming pools.
>
> Setting Two remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia.
>
> Participants 84 boys and 78 girls aged < 17 years.
>
> Main outcome measures Changes in prevalence and severity of pyoderma
> and perforation of tympanic membranes with or without otorrhoea over 18
> months after opening of pools.
>
> Results In community A, 61 children were seen before the pool was
> opened, and 41, 46, and 33 children were seen at the second, third, and
> fourth surveys. Equivalent figures for community B were 60, 35, 39, and
> 45. Prevalence of pyoderma declined significantly from 62% to 18% in
> community A and from 70% to 20% in community B during the 18 months
> after the pools opened. Over the same period, prevalence of severe
> pyoderma fell from 30% to 15% in community A and from 48% to 0% in
> community B. Prevalence of perforations of the tympanic membrane fell
> from 32% in both communities to 13% in community A and 18% in community
> B. School attendance improved in community A.
>
> Conclusion Swimming pools in remote communities were associated with
> reduction in prevalence of pyoderma and tympanic membrane perforations,
> which could result in long term benefits through reduction in chronic
> disease burden and improved educational and social outcomes.
> -----------------------------
>
> Full article
> http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=181254
>
> Severe pyoderma down from 48% of the sampled population to 0%.
> That's a pretty significant measure of the benefit of
> clean water in a community, dontcha think?
>
> What is it with you fucking tossers? "They don't deserve a swimming
> pool 'cause de blek"?
>
> http://www.dhw.wa.gov.au/images/abor_news07a.jpg
>
> That disgust you?
>
>
A bit more going on in this subject:
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http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/indexes/2004/twt_archive_2004_Thursday9December2004.htm
The infectious eye disease, trachoma, is seen as a disease of the developing
world and
has caused blindness and severe scarring in tens of millions of people. But
it's Australia's
Indigenous communities that have the highest rate of trachoma in the world.
Indeed, only
in the highlands of Ethiopia does the population come anywhere close to
having a rate of
trachoma comparable with Indigenous Australians. But trachoma is a
relatively easy disease
to eradicate, and this week one of Australia's leading eye surgeons is
visiting communities
in the Top End to campaign for a very simple solution - swimming pools.
HUGH TAYLOR: Trachoma is a disease of poor hygiene - where people just don't
have adequate
hygiene and housing to live properly, and particularly in the dirty dusty
dry conditions in central
Australia, hygiene's very hard.
ANNE BARKER: Professor Taylor is in the top end this week, visiting
Indigenous communities where trachoma is prevalent.
They're the same communities he first visited in the 1970's, but in 30 years
he says the rate of trachoma has barely changed.
But this time he's campaigning for a new approach. Along with the
conventional antibiotics, Professor Taylor believes
installing a swimming pool can do wonders to tackle trachoma.
[...]
ANNE BARKER: Why can't we just pay for doctors to go into all of these
communities and administer the right
treatment and cure everyone who has trachoma?
HUGH TAYLOR: Well, in some ways that was the paternalistic
authoritarian approach that has been used in the past,
but trachoma also revolves around these issues of hygiene and
community development, so we need to develop
housing, we need to develop water.
And I was in a community today where there are 10 people sharing each
house, so even though they've got new
houses through this year, there's just not enough houses for the
number of people there.
And so until we get that comprehensive investment in infrastructure,
we're just not going to win the battle.
ELEANOR HALL: Professor Hugh Taylor, from the Centre for Eye Research,
talking to Anne Barker in Darwin.
------------------------
Infrastructure: Water and Housing.
So we help "liberate" another dry and dusty country by destroying the
water and housing infrastructure.
>> >
>> > It may please the hawks amongst you that trachoma presented
>> > by children in Iraq has increased by about 5000% in the
>> > last 12 months (World Health Org 2004). I wonder why
>> > that is?
>>
>> Bit of a temporary situation.
>
>
> http://www.trachoma.org/trachoma.asp
> --------------
> Because the disease causes blindness in the most productive years of a
> person's life, trachoma can ruin the economic well being of entire
> families and communities. Women are two to three times more likely than
> men to be blinded by trachoma. A woman who becomes visually impaired
> because of the disease can no longer perform vital activities for her
> household, such as gathering firewood and cooking. To fill this gap, an
> older daughter may be taken out of school to assume those
> responsibilities, forgoing her opportunity to break the cycle of
> poverty with a formal education. If many adults in a village become
> blind from trachoma, an entire community may be debilitated. Without
> intervention, trachoma keeps families shackled to a cycle of poverty as
> vulnerability to the disease and its effects are passed from one
> generation to another.
> --------------
>
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| | From: | Mark Addinall | | Subject: | Re: Fresh Water required. | | Date: | Sun, 26 Dec 2004 23:58:07 GMT |
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"Mark Addinall" wrote in message
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>
And a bit more
---------------------------------
BBC To Extend Trachoma Elimination Campaign
[...]
"Based on the survey we made, new and acceptable messages will be
substituted for those
that were not well-received by the community during the previous campaigns,"
he said.
BBC will also facilitate the distribution of Zithromax ( a new drug for
trachoma prevention)
worth over five million USD in collaboration with the Ministry of Health
World Vision and the
International Trachoma Initiative which have been major stake holders during
the previous
phases of the trachoma elimination campaign, he said.
According to him, a single Zithromax tablet can protect an individual from
Trachoma for
a year as opposed to Tetracycline which has to be taken every day for the
same purpose.
Zithromax will be officially distributed in Ethiopia for the first time as
anti-trachoma drug, it was learnt.
-----------------------------
I actually think Ethiopia is going to be trachoma free before Australia.
Does anyone else think that this situation is a tad poor for "The lucky
Country" or indeed "The clever Country?
>>> > Here here.
>>>
>>> Who will maintain the pools?
>>
>> A pool attendant perhaps?
>>
>> ------------------
>> Benefits of swimming pools in two remote Aboriginal communities in
>> Western Australia: intervention study
>> Deborah Lehmann, epidemiologist,1 Mary T Tennant, research assistant,1
>> Desiree T Silva, paediatrician,1 Daniel McAullay, research officer,1
>> Francis Lannigan, otorhinolaryngologist,2 Harvey Coates,
>> otorhinolaryngologist,2 Fiona J Stanley, director1
>> Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia,
>> Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, PO Box 855, West Perth,
>> WA 6872, Australia 2 Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Subiaco,
>> WA 6008, Australia
>> Abstract
>>
>> Objective To determine the health impact of swimming pools built with
>> the aim of improving quality of life and reducing high rates of
>> pyoderma and otitis media.
>>
>> Design Intervention study assessing prevalence of ear disease and skin
>> infections before and at six monthly intervals after opening of
>> swimming pools.
>>
>> Setting Two remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia.
>>
>> Participants 84 boys and 78 girls aged < 17 years.
>>
>> Main outcome measures Changes in prevalence and severity of pyoderma
>> and perforation of tympanic membranes with or without otorrhoea over 18
>> months after opening of pools.
>>
>> Results In community A, 61 children were seen before the pool was
>> opened, and 41, 46, and 33 children were seen at the second, third, and
>> fourth surveys. Equivalent figures for community B were 60, 35, 39, and
>> 45. Prevalence of pyoderma declined significantly from 62% to 18% in
>> community A and from 70% to 20% in community B during the 18 months
>> after the pools opened. Over the same period, prevalence of severe
>> pyoderma fell from 30% to 15% in community A and from 48% to 0% in
>> community B. Prevalence of perforations of the tympanic membrane fell
>> from 32% in both communities to 13% in community A and 18% in community
>> B. School attendance improved in community A.
>>
>> Conclusion Swimming pools in remote communities were associated with
>> reduction in prevalence of pyoderma and tympanic membrane perforations,
>> which could result in long term benefits through reduction in chronic
>> disease burden and improved educational and social outcomes.
>> -----------------------------
>>
>> Full article
>> http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=181254
>>
>> Severe pyoderma down from 48% of the sampled population to 0%.
>> That's a pretty significant measure of the benefit of
>> clean water in a community, dontcha think?
>>
>> What is it with you fucking tossers? "They don't deserve a swimming
>> pool 'cause de blek"?
>>
>> http://www.dhw.wa.gov.au/images/abor_news07a.jpg
>>
>> That disgust you?
>>
>>
>
> A bit more going on in this subject:
> ----------------------------------
>
> http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/indexes/2004/twt_archive_2004_Thursday9December2004.htm
> The infectious eye disease, trachoma, is seen as a disease of the
> developing world and
>
> has caused blindness and severe scarring in tens of millions of people.
> But it's Australia's
>
> Indigenous communities that have the highest rate of trachoma in the
> world. Indeed, only
>
> in the highlands of Ethiopia does the population come anywhere close to
> having a rate of
>
> trachoma comparable with Indigenous Australians. But trachoma is a
> relatively easy disease
>
> to eradicate, and this week one of Australia's leading eye surgeons is
> visiting communities
>
> in the Top End to campaign for a very simple solution - swimming pools.
>
>
> HUGH TAYLOR: Trachoma is a disease of poor hygiene - where people just
> don't have adequate
> hygiene and housing to live properly, and particularly in the dirty dusty
> dry conditions in central
> Australia, hygiene's very hard.
>
> ANNE BARKER: Professor Taylor is in the top end this week, visiting
> Indigenous communities where trachoma is prevalent.
> They're the same communities he first visited in the 1970's, but in 30
> years he says the rate of trachoma has barely changed.
>
> But this time he's campaigning for a new approach. Along with the
> conventional antibiotics, Professor Taylor believes
> installing a swimming pool can do wonders to tackle trachoma.
>
> [...]
>
> ANNE BARKER: Why can't we just pay for doctors to go into all of
> these communities and administer the right
> treatment and cure everyone who has trachoma?
>
> HUGH TAYLOR: Well, in some ways that was the paternalistic
> authoritarian approach that has been used in the past,
> but trachoma also revolves around these issues of hygiene and
> community development, so we need to develop
> housing, we need to develop water.
>
> And I was in a community today where there are 10 people sharing each
> house, so even though they've got new
> houses through this year, there's just not enough houses for the
> number of people there.
>
> And so until we get that comprehensive investment in infrastructure,
> we're just not going to win the battle.
>
> ELEANOR HALL: Professor Hugh Taylor, from the Centre for Eye
> Research, talking to Anne Barker in Darwin.
>
>
> ------------------------
>
> Infrastructure: Water and Housing.
> So we help "liberate" another dry and dusty country by destroying the
> water and housing infrastructure.
>
>>> >
>>> > It may please the hawks amongst you that trachoma presented
>>> > by children in Iraq has increased by about 5000% in the
>>> > last 12 months (World Health Org 2004). I wonder why
>>> > that is?
>>>
>>> Bit of a temporary situation.
>>
>>
>> http://www.trachoma.org/trachoma.asp
>> --------------
>> Because the disease causes blindness in the most productive years of a
>> person's life, trachoma can ruin the economic well being of entire
>> families and communities. Women are two to three times more likely than
>> men to be blinded by trachoma. A woman who becomes visually impaired
>> because of the disease can no longer perform vital activities for her
>> household, such as gathering firewood and cooking. To fill this gap, an
>> older daughter may be taken out of school to assume those
>> responsibilities, forgoing her opportunity to break the cycle of
>> poverty with a formal education. If many adults in a village become
>> blind from trachoma, an entire community may be debilitated. Without
>> intervention, trachoma keeps families shackled to a cycle of poverty as
>> vulnerability to the disease and its effects are passed from one
>> generation to another.
>> --------------
>>
And what is more, we new this was going to affect the civilian population.
--------------------
Public Health Consequences of War In Iraq Discussed At Forum
Tuesday, March 11, 2003
4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
East Wing Auditorium (W1214)
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will host a panel
discussion on the potential public
health consequences of a war with Iraq. A panel of experts familiar with the
public health aspects of conflicts
will discuss the current situation in Iraq and the need for planning and
preparation to avoid a humanitarian crisis.
The program will be held from 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. in the School's East Wing
auditorium.
The program will begin with a presentation by Michael Van Rooyen, MD, MPH,
co-director of the
Center for International Emergency, Disaster, and Refugee Studies (CIEDRS)
at the School of Public
Health and vice-chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Johns
Hopkins School of Medicine.
In January, Dr. Van Rooyen went to Iraq to assess the country's public
health, water, food distribution and
health care delivery systems. The visit was organized by the Research Center
for Economics and Social Rights.
He reported that the Iraqi public health infrastructure is very fragile due
to over a decade of economic sanctions
and that 60 percent of the population relies on a complex food distribution
network set up under the Oil for
Food Program. According to Dr. Van Rooyen, these systems could be severely
disrupted during a conflict.
He said if a conflict occurs, relief agencies and the military will need to
quickly restore these systems to avoid
a catastrophic humanitarian emergency.
--------------------------
Well, it's 2005 in a few days, and it doesn't seem to be getting better does
it?
>
>
> Mark (true-blue) Addinall
>
>
>
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"Mark Addinall" wrote in message
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> "Mark Addinall" wrote in message
> news:ALHzd.89264$K7.41095@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>>
>
> And a bit more
>>
>> Infrastructure: Water and Housing.
>> So we help "liberate" another dry and dusty country by destroying the
>> water and housing infrastructure.
>>
>>>> >
>>>> > It may please the hawks amongst you that trachoma presented
>>>> > by children in Iraq has increased by about 5000% in the
>>>> > last 12 months (World Health Org 2004). I wonder why
>>>> > that is?
>>>>
>>>> Bit of a temporary situation.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.trachoma.org/trachoma.asp
>>> --------------
>>> Because the disease causes blindness in the most productive years of a
>>> person's life, trachoma can ruin the economic well being of entire
>>> families and communities. Women are two to three times more likely than
>>> men to be blinded by trachoma. A woman who becomes visually impaired
>>> because of the disease can no longer perform vital activities for her
>>> household, such as gathering firewood and cooking. To fill this gap, an
>>> older daughter may be taken out of school to assume those
>>> responsibilities, forgoing her opportunity to break the cycle of
>>> poverty with a formal education. If many adults in a village become
>>> blind from trachoma, an entire community may be debilitated. Without
>>> intervention, trachoma keeps families shackled to a cycle of poverty as
>>> vulnerability to the disease and its effects are passed from one
>>> generation to another.
>>> --------------
>>>
>
>
> And what is more, we new this was going to affect the civilian
> population.
>
> --------------------
> Public Health Consequences of War In Iraq Discussed At Forum
>
> Tuesday, March 11, 2003
> 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
> East Wing Auditorium (W1214)
>
>
> The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will host a panel
> discussion on the potential public
>
> health consequences of a war with Iraq. A panel of experts familiar with
> the public health aspects of conflicts
>
> will discuss the current situation in Iraq and the need for planning and
> preparation to avoid a humanitarian crisis.
>
> The program will be held from 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. in the School's East
> Wing auditorium.
>
> The program will begin with a presentation by Michael Van Rooyen, MD, MPH,
> co-director of the
>
> Center for International Emergency, Disaster, and Refugee Studies (CIEDRS)
> at the School of Public
>
> Health and vice-chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Johns
> Hopkins School of Medicine.
>
> In January, Dr. Van Rooyen went to Iraq to assess the country's public
> health, water, food distribution and
>
> health care delivery systems. The visit was organized by the Research
> Center for Economics and Social Rights.
>
> He reported that the Iraqi public health infrastructure is very fragile
> due to over a decade of economic sanctions
>
> and that 60 percent of the population relies on a complex food
> distribution network set up under the Oil for
>
> Food Program. According to Dr. Van Rooyen, these systems could be severely
> disrupted during a conflict.
>
> He said if a conflict occurs, relief agencies and the military will need
> to quickly restore these systems to avoid
>
> a catastrophic humanitarian emergency.
>
> --------------------------
>
>
>
> Well, it's 2005 in a few days, and it doesn't seem to be getting better
> does it?
>
>
Water In Baghdad
The water for our sergeant may sometimes be in short supply but it will
arrive and it will be clean. Not so for our Baghdad housewife. If history is
anything to go by, water will be difficult to find, dangerous to transport
and probably too dirty to drink without first cleaning it. Even before the
latest war started clean water was a scarce commodity in Iraq, particularly
the cities. Most of Iraq's water comes from the rivers Tigris and Euphrates.
When the country was oil-rich it invested a great deal of money in
state-of-the-art water and sewage plants, which provided its citizens with
amounts, and standards of water comparable with most parts of the United
States.
In 1991, bombing from coalition forces caused damage to water treatment
plants that removed 2.5 million people from the water supply. Iraqis
received only one quarter of pre-war water levels and water quality declined
rapidly. This contributed to a rapid increase in the incidence of diarrhea,
typhoid and cholera, which continues today. Iraq's medical care system had
neither the supplies nor the expertise to deal with this situation. Through
the Oil For Food Program (OFFP), things have improved during the past five
years, but UNICEF and the United Nations Development Program report that 40
per cent of city water samples still fail tests either for contamination by
solids or sufficient disinfection and 50 per cent of the sewage in Baghdad's
largest treatment plant is shunted directly into a river. Estimates are that
500,000 tons of raw sewage enters waterways daily in Iraq.
When The Shooting Stops
The whole system of water supply and sanitation is in a parlous state, and
large-scale bombings of civilian infrastructure, particularly the electric
power grid, would rapidly reduce Baghdad to an open sewer. Lift station
pumps often fail in the city, leading to streets filled with sewage. Only 10
per cent of lift stations have back-up generators and massive flooding of
sewers is expected within a few days from the time an electrical grid shuts
down. Back-up generators only have limited fuel supplies, and if
transportation is severed, re-supply will be impossible.
A great deal depends upon what damage is done to the city's infrastructure
but judging by past experience and what I have seen so far in this war, it
is highly likely that our housewife is in real danger from germs as well as
guns and steel. The most vulnerable Iraqis will be the children. Infant
mortality has already doubled in the past decade, and under age five
mortality is currently about 135/1000. Degradation of the water and sewage
systems may bring about a humanitarian catastrophe in Baghdad and the other
cities that are home to 70 per cent of Iraq's population. When the shooting
stops the first task of nation building must be for the Coalition military
forces to re-establish safe water and sewage systems in the cities.
--------------------
Damn those "dual use" water pipes........
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