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

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.

Blog Action Day: h2cm around the water whole

Today is Blog Action Day when bloggers unite, posting on the key theme of the environment:

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It is often said that the planet 'Earth' should be renamed such is the surface area covered by water. Water has long been the reason for life to congregate.

H20: the planet-wide religion of life.

For people water means settlement, hence the fear that in future it is water resources that will drive conflicts.

As we try to get to grips with the environmental issues and their solutions conceptual frameworks like h2cm can help bring everyone and everything together.

Think of Hodges' model as a watering hole.

People, communities, nations arrive there. Peering into the water we see ourselves and our neighbours.

TI:ME to share, if not barefoot TI:ME to kick off the shoes, touch the Earth and reflect:

ONE & MANY
MANY & ONE

From the four corners of the compass some of Earth's travellers arrive together. Others approach alone. Yet others will claim their arrival is spiritual. Whichever knowledge domain is the point of arrival, this provides the primary context.

The 21st century is the century of context: SITUATION

Flora + Fauna = 1

Flora + Fauna + Earth = 1

h2cm is not the starting point. We must bring experience, birth and death and all that is in-between to help solve our problems: transform attitudes. While we may be reaching for the stars there is nowhere to run.

Gaia taps our shoulder with increasing insistence. Who will turn and look her in the eye? The dare increases in magnitude moment by year. Avoidance of Nature’s gaze will not serve to protect, because we are already turning to shades of grey.

Comets were cast in the role of Hermes, the harbingers of tomorrow. Today, the appearance of contrails near the horizon is striking, so comet like; especially as they buzz the sun. In addition to finding h2cm there, what other messages are writ large in the sky? When will we once again see the stars reflected in the water hole?

Image sources with thanks:
http://www.fabricandart.com/HTML_files/Fabrics/australian_fabric_page.html
http://nightpath.org/gaia/