Section 1
An overview
Where to get help
Some useful terms in environmental health
What is environmental health
Responsibility for environmental health
Overview of environmental health in the NT
The common cycle
Housing and settlement planning
The overall picture
Environmental health/housing conditions in five remote
NT communities
Housing
House construction
Housing maintenance
Community management
Community housing issues
House ownership
Siting of houses
Community townships
Outstations
The Indigenous Housing
Authority of the Northern Territory (IHANT)
ATSIC Environmental Health Programs
The Department of Housing
The importance of health hardware
Report of Uwankara Palyanyku Kanyintjaku (The UPK Report)
Why health hardware is a problem
Who is working with health hardware and health infrastructure
The ATSIC Survey 1992
The difficulties of supplying potable water
Who is responsible for water supply
Power and Water Authority (PAWA)
Essential Services Officers
Erosion and land degradation
A model for understanding landcare and land management
Who is working in landcare and land management
Rubbish collection and disposal system
Guidelines and legislation
Who is working in 'Rubbish'
Dogs and human health
Dog programs
Who is involved in dog programs
Conditions that favour breeding of
pests
Common insects and pests in the Northern Territory
Mosquitoes
Rodents and disease
Time and temperature control
Regulation of food hygiene
The Northern Territory Food and Nutrition Policy
Electrical safety
The roles and responsibilities of PAWA
Essential requirements for healthy
living
Why it is important to promote healthy living
practices in the community
1. Washing people - especially
children under 5
2. Washing clothes and bedding
3. Removing wastewater, sewage and rubbish
4. Maintaining food hygiene and water quality
5. Reducing crowding
6. Improving dog health
7. Controlling dust
8. Controlling temperature in living areas
9. Reducing risk situations (trauma)
10. Controlling insects and pests
The THS Environmental Health Program
Who is in the Environmental Health Team
Environmental Health Officers
What Environmental Health Officers do
Environmental health legislation and guidelines
Environmental Health Workers (EHWs)
Environmental health: men's or women's responsibility?
Environmental Health Program contact numbers
Section 2
Strategies to address environmental health issues
What to do in case of an environmental health hazard
Supporting long term change - where to start
Supporting environmental health action
Funding for environmental health projects
Strategies for getting to know your environment
Supporting environmental health surveys
Why do the surveys
How the surveys are done
What survey results are used for
What health centre staff can do
Drawing up a 'Roles and Responsibilities' chart
Doing a participatory mapping exercise
Strategies for promoting healthy living practices
1. Washing people - especially children under
5
2. Washing clothes and bedding
3. Removing wastewater, sewage and rubbish
Septic systems and waste water
Removing rubbish and solid waste, "sharps"
etc
4. Maintaining food hygiene and water quality
Maintaining food hygiene
Maintaining water quality
5. Reducing crowding
6. Improving dog health
7. Controlling dust
8. Controlling temperature in living areas
9. Reducing risk situations (trauma)
10. Controlling insects and pests