Thomson George, Wilson Nick
Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington.
N Z Med J. 2018 Feb 2;131(1469):69-74.
Appropriate public access to water is an increasing concern, and to further explore field observation methods for assessing such access, we aimed to survey drinking fountains in playgrounds across many local government areas. We systematically collected data (including photographs) of drinking fountains in randomly selected public playgrounds in 17 local government areas (TLAs) in New Zealand. The time for playground surveys was always less than 15 minutes. We found only one of the 17 TLAs had working drinking fountains in all the playgrounds sampled, and 11 working fountains in all 54 playgrounds (20%). Three had metal discolouration within 1cm of the nozzle. The systematic observation method was relatively quick, making it suitable for local officials and health promoters.
公众对安全饮用水的获取问题日益受到关注，为进一步探索评估此类获取情况的实地观察方法，我们旨在对新西兰多个地方政府辖区内游乐场的饮水器进行调查。我们系统地收集了新西兰17个地方政府辖区（TLA）随机选取的公共游乐场中饮水器的数据（包括照片）。游乐场调查时间始终少于15分钟。我们发现，17个TLA中只有1个辖区内所有抽样游乐场的饮水器均可正常使用，54个游乐场中共有11个饮水器可正常使用（占20%）。有3个饮水器的喷嘴周围1厘米范围内出现金属变色。这种系统观察方法相对快捷，适合地方官员和健康促进者使用。
