Natur og Kultur som Folkehelse - NaKuHel

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
Coping chronic disease – network in local community
Heidi Kvalvaag
An easy and feasible cooperation model with four
main actors: municipality, medical centers, users
and local community.
Health political challenge:
organizing local communities and health care system
to cope NCDs, i.e. those in population identified
to be on risk. Evidence base: Coping NCD
do prevent serious illness which else will require
treatments and care - determining the economy of
municipalities 5-20 years ahead.
Focus:
What medical centers – being responsible for and
in contact with all diagnosed with NCDs –can do
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better, allocating small extra resources from the
municipality.
Action:
Offer participation in coping group as standard
health service, using dialog and praxis perspectives,
organizing self-help networks.
Expected results:
Empowering individuals and releasing recourses
to improve their own social conditions, evolving
to pressure groups to fight toxic society locally,
promoting healthy local societies – for their own
health. Relieving GPs significantly and saving
social costs.
NaCuHeal / Senegal:
An environmental vision but mainly concrete actions
By dr. Mohamed Lamine Manga
Today, West Africa faces numerous environmental
challenges. But these have far-reaching consequences
for local communities and they are not
specific to this region. It affects the whole continent
albeit with nuances, but with proven effects.
Lake Chad has lost 90% of its water; the Niger
River narrows from year to year. This poses a
problem of navigability on its course, but also the
difficulties of managing water resources shared by
eight nations as for agriculture, energy and transport.
Declining groundwater levels due to drying
resulting from solar radiation and deforestation,
which prevails throughout the Sahel, is causing
many problems for both local farmers and pastoralists.
It also results in many conflicts that affect
the stability of our states and annihilate the efforts
of sub-regional integration. However, the human
responsibility is engaged at the forefront by malicious
logging through decades causing the loss of
large areas of forests that were contributing before
in regulating local ecosystems.
In Senegal, about 40 000 ha of forests are lost due
to fires caused by human action every year. A paradigm
shift is needed: sustainable management of
forests still existing is more than necessary, which
induces both their preservation, but also the reforestation
of deforested areas and also an awareness
of political leaders, stakeholders and individuals
in their respective communities. The initiative
taken by NaCuHeal / Senegal since 5 years
in partnership with the Norwegian NGO, Women
In Forestry (JiS), is aiming at a local awareness
and collaborative management of the environment
through a combination of the principles of sustainable
development, green development and ecotourism.
Key words:
collaborative management, sustainable development,
green development, ecotourism, and partnership.