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• 2x2x2 Water Challenge for Ethiopia – Ending Trachoma
• Toilets can fly
• Health Hardware – why we all need it
• The Guide – Partners
• “Make housing a verb”, “stop people getting sick” and “no survey without service”
• Why Housing for Health the Guide is needed
• Why houses fail to deliver health benefit -TENANT DAMAGE IS NOT THE PROBLEM
• Housing for Health – the guide
• TEDx – Housing for Health
• Removing waste safely – an animation

The Guide

• Safety

  A1 Electrical Safety

  • A1.1 Safety switches
  • A1.2 Electrical earth connection
  • A1.3 Cabling and wiring
  • A1.4 Power points, lights and other fittings

  A2 Gas Safety

  • A2.1 Gas Safety

  A3 Fire Safety

  • A3.1 Fire prevention
  • A3.2 Fire and smoke detection
  • A3.3 Escape in the event of fire

  A4 Structural Safety

  • A4.1 Structural safety

• Health & Housing

  B1 Washing People

  • B1.1 Wet area design
  • B1.2 Hot water
  • B1.3 Water outlets, valves & taps
  • B1.4 Washing kids ― hand basin, baths, and laundry tubs
  • B1.5 Showers
  • B1.6 Wet area floor drainage (bathroom, shower, toilet and laundry)
  • B1.7 Turning off water to allow plumbing maintenance

  B2 Washing clothes and bedding

  • B2.1 Laundry design
  • B2.2 Drying clothes and bedding

  B3 Removing waste water safely

  • B3.1 Flush toilets
  • B3.2 House drains
  • B3.3 Septic Systems + on site waste disposal
  • B3.4 Aerated waste water treatment system
  • B3.5 Dry toilets

  B4 Improving nutrition – the ability to store, prepare and cook food

  • B4.1 Quality of drinking water
  • B4.2 Food storage
  • B4.3 Preparing food – sinks and benches
  • B4.4 Cooking
  • B4.5 kitchen Design (General)

  B5 Reducing the negative impacts of crowding

  • B5.1 Performance of health hardware in households with more people
  • B5.2 Developing the edges of the house and the yard
  • B5.3 Storage areas in the house

  B6 Reducing the negative effects of animals, insects and vermin

  • B6.1 Dogs, horses, pigs and other large animals
  • B6.2 Animals: rats, mice, snakes and birds
  • B6.3 Insects: ants and cockroaches
  • B6.4 Insects: mosquitoes and flies
  • B6.5 Insects: Dust mites
  • B6.6 Insects: termites

  B7 Reducing the health impacts of dust

  • B7.1 Reducing the health impacts of dust

  B8 Controlling the temperature of the living environment

  • B8.1 Human comfort and climate
  • B8.2 Passive design in tropical zones
  • B8.3 Passive design for houses in arid and temperate climates
  • B8.4 Active cooling of houses
  • B8.5 Active heating of houses

  B9 Reducing hazards that cause minor injury (trauma)

  • B9.1 Hazardous materials
  • B9.2 Personal security
  • B9.3 Preventing slips, trips and falls
  • B9.4 Preventing cuts and abrasions
  • B9.5 Preventing burns

• Healthy Communities

  C1 Water

  • C1.1 Water quantity and treatment systems
  • C1.2 Water quantity and demand management
  • C1.3 Rainwater, stormwater and recycled water for landscaping

  C2 Energy

  • C2.1 Electricity
  • C2.2 Gas

  C3 Waste Water

  • C3.1 Waste water

  C4 Household rubbish disposal

  • C4.1 Household rubbish removal

  C5 Community planning

  C6 Landscaping

  • C6.1 Landscaping

  C7 Communications