In collaboration with: GOUTAMI EYE INSTITUTE www.goutami.org GAPIO Eye Foundation America Rotary www.eyefoundationofamerica.org An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. I POUND PENI CURE -Benjamin Franklin Prevention is touted as the first and most important step in health. In today's world, we are focused on preventing the spread of disease through proper hygiene including frequent hand washing, wearing masks, and social distancing. Recently, prevention measures have gained international attention, but this was not always the case. Prevention is celebrated in principle and resisted in practice. Prevention isn't glamorous. Disease treatments take center stage, gathering media and financial backing. Prevention such as hygiene, eating right, and regular exercise are less interesting, but far more important. Prevention isn't fun. Good nutrition and 30 minutes of activity every day create a healthy lifestyle. Fast food, fad diets, and excessive screen time make a healthy lifestyle challenging. Prevention isn't static. Standards for maintaining health and preventing disease are not always agreed upon. As more research is done, guidelines and recommendations may change. The science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical and mental health and efficiency through organized community efforts for the sanitation of the environment, the control of community infections, the education of the individual in principles of personal hygiene, the organization of medical and nursing service for the early diagnosis and preventive treatment of disease, and the development of the social machinery, which will ensure to every individual in the community a standard of living adequate for the maintenance of health." -Charles Edward Winslow (1842) Major Public Health Milestones Hand Washing Sewage Systems Garbage Collection Water Chlorination Vaccines Masks Research supports wearing masks to control the spread of COVID-19. Wear a mask! Rotary & Polio Global Collaboration vs. Deadly Disease Polio is a paralyzing and potentially deadly infectious disease. It commonly affects children under the age of 5. The virus typically spreads through contaminated water. There is no cure for polio; however, there are two effective vaccine forms- an injection or an oral dose, as seen on the right. In 1979, Rotary International began work to eradicate polio. As a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, they have helped reduce polio cases by 99.9 percent over the last 30+ years. Over 2.5 billion children have been immunized in 122 countries. END Now, polio is only endemic in 3 countries- Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan. POLIO Prevention (Eradication Efforts): NOW If all eradication efforts stopped today, within 10 years, polio could paralyze up to 200,000 children yearly. In collaboration with: GOUTAMI EYE INSTITUTE www.goutami.org GAPIO Eye Foundation America Rotary www.eyefoundationofamerica.org An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. I POUND PENI CURE -Benjamin Franklin Prevention is touted as the first and most important step in health. In today's world, we are focused on preventing the spread of disease through proper hygiene including frequent hand washing, wearing masks, and social distancing. Recently, prevention measures have gained international attention, but this was not always the case. Prevention is celebrated in principle and resisted in practice. Prevention isn't glamorous. Disease treatments take center stage, gathering media and financial backing. Prevention such as hygiene, eating right, and regular exercise are less interesting, but far more important. Prevention isn't fun. Good nutrition and 30 minutes of activity every day create a healthy lifestyle. Fast food, fad diets, and excessive screen time make a healthy lifestyle challenging. Prevention isn't static. Standards for maintaining health and preventing disease are not always agreed upon. As more research is done, guidelines and recommendations may change. The science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical and mental health and efficiency through organized community efforts for the sanitation of the environment, the control of community infections, the education of the individual in principles of personal hygiene, the organization of medical and nursing service for the early diagnosis and preventive treatment of disease, and the development of the social machinery, which will ensure to every individual in the community a standard of living adequate for the maintenance of health." -Charles Edward Winslow (1842) Major Public Health Milestones Hand Washing Sewage Systems Garbage Collection Water Chlorination Vaccines Masks Research supports wearing masks to control the spread of COVID-19. Wear a mask! Rotary & Polio Global Collaboration vs. Deadly Disease Polio is a paralyzing and potentially deadly infectious disease. It commonly affects children under the age of 5. The virus typically spreads through contaminated water. There is no cure for polio; however, there are two effective vaccine forms- an injection or an oral dose, as seen on the right. In 1979, Rotary International began work to eradicate polio. As a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, they have helped reduce polio cases by 99.9 percent over the last 30+ years. Over 2.5 billion children have been immunized in 122 countries. END Now, polio is only endemic in 3 countries- Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan. POLIO Prevention (Eradication Efforts): NOW If all eradication efforts stopped today, within 10 years, polio could paralyze up to 200,000 children yearly.