Sanitation

attention being placed on an area can also make it safer. High-class residents tend to demand police involvement more than anyone else, so the streets are being watched. Trash and recycling receptacles are often added to the streets, helping with sanitation. One thing that often suffers, however, is culture and community. Tight-knit neighborhoods are formed through shared experiences or identity. All the change that comes with gentrification can disrupt that sense of unity. The new people…

Elizabeth Blackwell was a pioneer for women everywhere and took giant steps in medical and social reform and sanitation. She gave many women after her the opportunity to follow in her footsteps and make a difference in the world. Elizabeth Blackwell was born in Bristol, England in 1821. She was born to Hannah Lane and Samuel Blackwell. Elizabeth lived with her parents, her father’s four unmarried sisters and eight other siblings. She grew up in a religious and liberal home that pushed education.…

1832 with European immigrants and businessmen who had traveled across Lake Erie. The people who lived in the Cleveland area were the first ones in Ohio to contract cholera. This disease was more virulent in the cities because these places had poor sanitation systems.…

surplus produce to Third World countries because of the inadequate irrigation systems. There are goals for development plans in many developing countries to improve the standard of living for the poor, some of which include electricity, health care, sanitation, and water supply. This…

“Recognizes the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right that is essential for the full enjoyment of life and all human rights” (2016). Not every nation is on board with accepting that water is a human right. It should be noted that an element that is a necessity to life is actually killing the population. According to the UN, nearly 900 million people live without clean water and 2.6 billion without proper sanitation. At least 4,000 children die every day from…

lancing and bubbles (Bubonic Plague, 2014). A mixture of “tree sin, roots of white lilies and dried human excrement” were applied to those areas where the person was cut open or where they had wounds (Cures for BlackDeath, 2014). When dealing with sanitation, the bodies and the waste of the human bodies were very important to be eliminated. The dead bodies were buried in “deep pits” outside of the village and their clothes were burnt (Cures for the BlackDeath, 2014). It was very important for…

Partners In Health, a public charity that he founded. Partners In Health almost fully funded Zanmi Lasante, a beautiful citadel located in one of the most impoverished and diseased parts of Haiti. “But Zanmi had built schools and houses and communal sanitation and water systems throughout its catchment area. It had vaccinated all the children, and had greatly reduced both local malnutrition and infant mortality” (Kidder 22). Among these accomplishments, Zanmi Lasante also established programs…

When we consider the connection between race and housing in post-WWII America, it is one that is marked by exclusion from opportunity, and continued segregation. While the racist practices of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and segregated communities do support this notion, the connection is (too) often related to homeownership alone. In fact, many racial groups, namely Black Americans, faced housing discrimination as renters. This did not necessarily entail exclusion from rental…

operations too soon (WHO & PAHO, 2011). Moving forward, WHO and PAHO stated that the Republic of Haiti would still need assistance to battle and prevent future infectious disease outbreaks like cholera, measles, and tuberculosis; improve water sanitation and access to clean water; increase healthcare service accessibility; remove rubble; and restore government (especially for vaccinations and HIV-AIDS detection and treatment) (WHO & PAHO, 2011). WHO and PAHO heavily stressed that although…

People in the United states don’t realize how lucky we are when it comes to clean water. We have an abundance of drinking water at our disposal, other countries aren’t so lucky. They have little to no drinkable water at all, their water is contaminated and causes sickness if they drink it. If we can somehow develop a way of getting clean water to these underdeveloped countries, it can reduce the wide spread of water disease, improve education levels, and bring the overall safety of people up, as…