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Building Bottom-up Health and Disaster Risk Reduction Programmes (Paperback)
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Building Bottom-up Health and Disaster Risk Reduction Programmes (Paperback)
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As a backdrop of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
(2016-2030), the United Nations pointed out that more than 6
million children still died before the age of five by 2015. At
least 1.8 billion people across the world still consumed fecally
contaminated drinking water and 2.4 million lacked access to basic
sanitation services such as toilets or latrines, while nearly 1,000
children died every day of preventable water and sanitation-related
diarrhoeal diseases. Rural areas fare far worse: Children in rural
areas are about 1.7 times more likely to die before their fifth
birthday as those in urban areas. About 16 per cent of the rural
population do not use improved drinking water sources, compared to
4 per cent of the urban population. About 50 per cent of people
living in rural areas lack improved sanitation facilities, compared
to only 18 per cent of people in urban areas. Far too many one-off
rural on-site public health knowledge transfer projects fail to
deliver results in the long run, and the knowledge in question
cannot be retained in the rural communities after the NGO and
development workers are gone. In addition to external constraints,
this is often due to a lack of theoretical understanding among NGO
practitioners and volunteers and basis for evaluation and
improvement of health relief programmes. Based on public health
theories and illustrated by relevant examples, this book introduces
how health, emergency and disaster preparedness education
programmes could be organised in remote rural Asia, which could
become useful reference materials for organisers and volunteers of
rural development projects. This book is an introductory to
intermediate level textbook and reference book for healthcare
professionals, fieldworkers, volunteers and students who are
interested in promoting health and emergency and disaster risk
reduction. The book is developed from the experience and insights
gained from the long-established CCOUC Ethnic Minority Health
Project in China. It also incorporates new lessons from CCOUC's
recent projects in Asia countries like Bhutan, Nepal and Democratic
People's Republic of Korea.
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