Colby Veirs
SOC202
Sills
11/18/11
Blog #12
Lack of Cleanliness
When the hotel cleaner finds barley unused piece’s of soap she stopped and said this is very valuable in some places but here people just but it to waste and treat it as another daily object. The 35 year old Fatoma Dia grew up in the mountainous region of Sudan where soap is a highly valued item and can cost more then some daily wages making it a hard item for the public to acquire. When something is not affordable to the lower and middle class it is very bad it cannot get to all that need it. When this happen the groups begin to slack and become less clean and more prone to catch viruses and diseases. 2.4 billion people do not have access to clean sanitation, according to the World Health Organization. According to those stats more time and money should be spent and saved just to increase those odds in other places of dreadful sanitation. This then leads to more children dying due to their non mature immune system that can’t fight off the illnesses in contaminated environments. Sicknesses related to contaminated water supplies and poor human hygiene tend to plague poorer regions. All these water and land infection bourn illnesses can hit a country suddenly in the wake of a natural disaster where there is little infrastructure previously in place to handle sustainable cleanup and recovery. Overall these bugs tend to spread quicker when people are forced into cramped and overcrowded refugee camps where there are few bathrooms or none at all leading vulnerable nations or countries in the grip of war are also breeding grounds for sickness caused by poor sanitation.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/15/health/cnnheroes-soap-hygiene/index.html?hpt=he_t3
2 comments:
The economy and a person's economic standing directly effects their health. I agree with you, and I think people like the World Health Organization bringing attention to these statistics and issue is really necessary.
Your post made me think of a comment that Dr. Sills said in class. In the transitions in society the birth rate increased because of knowledge and the industrial revolution. Knowledge led to doctors understanding the importance of washing their hands when working with different patience. I agree with you that the economy does influence the health of society.
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