Water Related Health Issues

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WATER RELATED HEALTH ISSUES
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Table of Contents
Driving forces of health issues:..................................................................................................2
Social, political or economic influences:...................................................................................3
Management of environmental health issues:............................................................................4
Recommendation:......................................................................................................................5
Conclusion:................................................................................................................................6
References:.................................................................................................................................7

2WATER RELATED HEALTH ISSUES
Part 1.
Driving forces of health issues:
The aim of this essay is to discuss the water related health issues that has been
affecting the global population and mainly the deprived areas of Australian region, mainly the
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands. Due to increasing environmental pollution, clean pure
water has been one of the most important basic needs of the people in the world. This water
whether used for drinking, food production, and domestic usage and for the sanitation
purpose have been gaining of utmost importance for the water resource management of the
countries. According to studies, this process of .proper water resource management is
effective to boost the economic growth of the countries and contributes for reducing poverty
in many ways. This essay will be discussing the driving forces, pressures, state changes,
exposures and effect of water related health issues in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands,
different social, political or economic influences not captured in DPSEEA framework by
WHO, management of environmental health issue and some effective suggestion to manage
these challenges.
The indigenous Australia health statistics indicates that these aboriginal Australians
are less healthy than the rest of the Australian community. In the year 1989, despite the
national aboriginal health strategy had been created, the 26% of the indigenous Australians
residing in the remote areas actually experience more than 40% of the health gap of the
indigenous Australians overall. The most important driving forces are related to the centuries
of deprivation by the white Australians in the terms of land dispossession, political
oppression, social marginalization, population decline and acculturation (Healthdirect.gov.au.
2019). Towards the end of the 19th century, the indigenous Australians were reduced in
numbers and the survivors mainly confined to the remote reserves and the missions. This is
the reason why these communities were granted to be the associations of diseases by the