Focus Area 8: Environmental Health
8-29. Global deaths from poor sanitation, water, or hygiene
8-29. Global deaths from poor sanitation, water, or hygiene
- Met target by 161%
Target: 2,135,000 deaths.
Baseline: 2,668,200 deaths worldwide were attributable to these factors in 1990.
Target setting method: 20 percent improvement.
Data source: World Health Report 2003, World Health Organization.
According to the Progress Quotient Chart for Focus Area 8: Environmental Health, here is how the figured the targeted change achieved.Years in parentheses represent the baseline data year and the most recent data year used to compute the percent of the Health People 2010 target achieved
Emerging Issues: Increased international travel and improvements in telecommunications and computer technology are making the world a smaller place. Actions in each country affect the environment and influence events around the world. For example, over the next several decades, more people will face water quality and quantity problems because of worldwide water shortages, especially in developing countries.
S.624 : A bill to provide 100,000,000 people with first-time access to safe drinking water and sanitation on a sustainable basis by 2015 by improving the capacity of the United States Government to fully implement the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005.
Sponsor: Sen Richard Durbin (IL)
Cosponsors: Sen. Bob Corker (TN) and Sen Patty Murray (WA)
Latest Major Action: 3/17/2009 Referred to Senate committee.
Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
My Political Representatives: Amy Klobuchar
After watching documentaries in class and reading about our national water scarcity issue, I believe that providing safe drinking water to everyone is very important. Water is a right to everyone and individuals should not have to worry about getting sick or dying from the water that they have access to and are drinking. There are ways that this issue could be handled, and the first would be to write a letter to my political representative, which is Amy Klobuchar.
Although this target has been met, it is a subject that will always have area for improvement.
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Nice job!
ReplyDeleteIt's great to see so much progress being made in this area of health! I really like the comment you made that although the target has been met, there is always room for improvement. I agree with you 100%.
ha ha indeed great minds must think alike!!! I thought that this one is really interesting it goes along well with some of the doumentaries we watched in class.
ReplyDeleteI just came from Jessica's blog, which covered the same objective! Although this target has been met, I agree that it is a subject that will always have area for improvement! Let's keep everyone's drinking water clean!
ReplyDeleteGreat Post! I really hope this bill is passed. This is a great topic to choose.
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