Sanitation and Education

Background and Rationale for School Sanitation and Hygiene Education

At the eve of the new Millennium, despite all the progress reported world-wide in recent decades, more than 2,3 billion people still live without access to sanitation facilities and are unable to practise such basic hygiene as washing their hands with soap and water. Diseases related to poor sanitation and water availability cause many people to fall ill or even die. Children are the most vulne...

Sanitation and Potential Gains from Sanitation Marketing in Ghana

6 Household demand for improved sanitation in developing countries is an important 7 social and behavioral process with implications for public health, sanitation policy and 8 planning, and sanitation design and technology development. This paper develops a 9 behavioral approach to assess household demand for improved sanitation in Ghana. Adoption 10 decision stages of preference, intention, an...

Sanitation and hygiene approaches

Water supply, sanitation and health education programmes in developing countries: problems of evaluation.

There are several methodological problems related to evaluating the impact that improved water supply, sanitation and health education projects have on public health. Fifteen studies of intervention programmes, one by the present authors, are discussed. Since non-intervention studies of water supply are difficult to assess, a valid study design must include an intervention programme, even thoug...

Evaluation of a water, sanitation, and hygiene education intervention on diarrhoea in northern Pakistan.

OBJECTIVE Inadequate water and sanitation services adversely affect the health and socioeconomic development of communities. The Water and Sanitation Extension Programme (WASEP) project, undertaken in selected villages in northern Pakistan between 1997 and 2001, was designed to deliver an integrated package of activities to improve potable water supply at village and household levels, sanitatio...