In building a sustainable society, one in which the quality of life is measured by the efficiency in delivering and reducing the dependency on basic services, focus must be on the big issues; Health and Education.The health of a population is paramount to it development. This is made clearer when water availability, agriculture, food processing and trade, crime prevention and detection are seen as part of the overall health issues. Health is more than the research of the root causes of illness and development of treatments or cures, it is more than diets and exercises to maintain fitness levels, it extends into lifestyles incorporating disease free water supply, defense against nature’s ailments, well prepared foods and safety against accidental or criminal events in all aspect of daily living. Separating these very important issues leads to miscommunications and adversity.
Health management structures must stop reactionary practices of statistically measuring how many emergency rooms, clinics and hospitals are required to serve a populated area, or beds, nurses and doctors that are on-call for a particular shift. There must also be regulatory oversight into the water supply and sewage treatment to prevent water borne diseases. They must inspect the entire food channel, from farms to restaurants and all imported animals and plants that may find their way into the food chain and to the table, for poisonous bacteria. These structures must be able to arrest and prosecute persons found to be endangering the health of the population. No one will ever get the numbers right if the water or food supply is accidentally or purposely poisoned.
An educated (skilled and experienced) workforce can build a nation while improving lifestyles. By instilling the desire to learn, as its only rewards, will strength the individuals’ understanding of togetherness and community, will drive the designing and building of praiseworthy systems, will improve health and of course, will decrease crime. Education is more than a classroom event - learning can take place anywhere, it is more than acquiring a set of skills - it is a continuous search for knowledge, it is a natural human desire like eating or sleeping - one must know. The question therefore is “Who must know what and when?” Creating that yearning for learning and identifying a group of talents in a young person is in itself a highly specialized skill. Constantly encouraging and motivating learning is a lifelong quest.
Education management structures are charged with the responsibilities of promoting and graduating annually a number of skilled individuals (this task fall mostly on teachers, who after a few year of training are given this responsibility to guide future generations mostly without further mandatory training or assessment) without regulatory oversight as to what happens to the graduate after. This is counterproductive, employment records (available through social services or national insurance records) should be part of the education system, used to track and gauge successes and when and where necessary offer further training. Constantly using such data to identify, seek-out and guide unemployed individuals or groups toward numerous retraining options and productive careers and away from illicit activities. The only gang activities must be learning.
So while we fight to regulate the financial sector this is just the tip of the iceberg.
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