Environmental Health Risks Lack of access to appropriate health services, waste Improved delivery of services to rural human settlements: management services and infrastructure, electricity, Water quality and availability transport and communications infrastructure Improved and more accessible primary health care facilities Heat waves Lack of access to reticulated water services and hot water, HIV treatment and prevention programmes poorly maintained or inadequately specified bulk water Extreme weather events infrastructure and treatment facilities Job creation through upgrades and maintenance of rural roads Food security Inadequate housing and sanitation infrastructure Renewable energy electrification and Internet access in Vector borne diseases, malaria, cholera Prevalence of HIV, tuberculosis, malnutrition remote rural clinics Poverty and unemployment Environmentally-friendly and socially acceptable sanitation solutions Age – infants and the elderly vulnerable to heat stress Climate resilient rural housing programme including solar water heaters and off-grid/mini grid electrification School feeding programmes and sanitation infrastructure, planting of trees for shelter Rural waste management strategies focusing on challenges facing rural communities Technological innovation and research in service delivery to rural communities, focusing on appropriate green technologies
Environmental Health Risks Water quality and availability Heat waves Extreme weather events Food security Vector borne diseases, malaria, cholera Lack of access to appropriate health services, waste management services and infrastructure, electricity, transport and communications infrastructure Lack of access to reticulated water services and hot water, poorly maintained or inadequately specified bulk water infrastructure and treatment facilities Inadequate housing and sanitation infrastructure Prevalence of HIV, tuberculosis, malnutrition Poverty and unemployment Age – infants and the elderly vulnerable to heat stress Improved delivery of services to rural human settlements: Improved and more accessible primary health care facilities HIV treatment and prevention programmes Job creation through upgrades and maintenance of rural roads Renewable energy electrification and Internet access in remote rural clinics Environmentally-friendly and socially acceptable sanitation solutions Climate resilient rural housing programme including solar water heaters and off-grid/mini grid electrification School feeding programmes and sanitation infrastructure, planting of trees for shelter Rural waste management strategies focusing on challenges facing rural communities Technological innovation and research in service delivery to rural communities, focusing on appropriate green technologies
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