Blog Action Day 2010 - Water: conceptual drops in the health career model

Today is Blog Action Day and the theme is water.

Below I have added a selection of water related links across the domains of the health career model:

Interpersonal : Sciences

Sociology : Political

Water use - You? Water Encyclopedia water in Philosophy National Geographic the Water project	Properties of water The water cycle Water, sanitation & health: WHO  Water on the Sun SI water Homeostasis
Water mythology WaterWired Water development photos Costing the Earth BBC: Cleaning Up the Ganges	Waternet: Geopolitics of water scarcity in the Middle East World Water Day Water, health and economics: WHO Water.org UNESCO

The above links:
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/beinggreen/117266.aspx
http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/
http://www.science-parliament.eu/forums/2010-water-science-politics/1151/water-in-philosophy
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/04/water-is-life/kingsolver-text
http://thewaterproject.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Properties_of_water
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Water/
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/news/sunwater.htmlhttp://www.simetric.co.uk/si_water.htm
http://www.nursingtimes.net/nursing-practice-clinical-research/homeostasis-part-4-fluid-balance/203260.article
http://www.lenntech.com/water-mythology.htm
http://aquadoc.typepad.com/waterwired/
http://www.photovault.com/Link/Food/Water/WellsDevelopment/FWWVolume01.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sg2my
http://www.waternet.be/
http://www.worldwaterday.org/
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/economic/
http://water.org/
http://www.unesco.org/water/wwap/

Blog Action Day 15 October: Poverty - Hodges' model

The table below indicates some of the main concepts and concerns that
surround poverty presented using the four care domains of Hodges' model:

INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

Well-being, mental health, mood, hope, human spirit. Education - literacies: 3Rs, ICT, social, visual, spiritual, health.... human potential, premature death, personal choices & autonomy. ability to work, philanthropy, disability, gender, LEARNING - UNLEARNING, adversity, personal development, making a difference - Giving. Awareness of poverty. Attitudes, beliefs, sustainability.

Physical health, nutrition, DIAGNOSES: infectious diseases - diarrhoeal illness, malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS. Infant / maternal mortality. Water. Natural resources, fuel, crops, disasters. Geography, global warming, climate change, gender, age. WHO regional-global reporting, ICD. Complexity. Research: Dimensions of Poverty - "The human development index (HDI) includes income, longevity and education. This paper contends that poverty extends beyond these domains. It explores dimensions of poverty that poor people value, but for which little or no data is available."

Shelter, housing, schools, local environment, social inclusion, work, social mobility, homelessness, stigma (poverty as a disease?), media, major - national & global fund-raising events. Access to information and communications technology. Dependency. Social justice. Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) Religion, humanitarianism, fatalism, leisure. http://www.poverty.com/

HUMAN RIGHTS, LAW, POLICY, U.N., FUNDING, GLOBAL ECONOMICS, MDG 2015. Governance. DEFINITIONS: Relative poverty, absolute poverty, exclusion. effects of globalisation, industrialisation, urbanisation, conflict, refugees, migration, loss of statehood, immigration, professional migration, corruption, economic costs, welfare, benefits, income thresholds, min. wage, inflation, poverty indicators, GDP, major philanthropic programmes, charities, NGOs. social exclusion, unemployment, 'knowledge' economy - learning disability, pension economics, micro lending. International Aid: Official Development Assistance 0.7% national targets.

The POLITICAL links page includes Development, Human Rights, Activism, Policy...