نتایج جستجو برای: water hygiene

تعداد نتایج: 571238  

2017
Shane M Khan Robert E S Bain Karsten Lunze Turgay Unalan Bo Beshanski-Pedersen Tom Slaymaker Richard Johnston Attila Hancioglu

BACKGROUND The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) require household survey programmes such as the UNICEF-supported Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) to enhance data collection to cover new indicators. This study aims to evaluated methods for assessing water quality, water availability, emptying of sanitation facilities, menstrual hygiene management and the acceptability of water quali...

2012
Blessing Dube James January

Although the world has progressed in the area of water and sanitation, more than 2.3 billion people still live without access to sanitation facilities and some are unable to practice basic hygiene. Access to water and basic sanitation has deteriorated in Chitungwiza and children are at risk of developing illness and missing school due to the deterioration. We sought to investigate the predispos...

Journal: :Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH 1996
A M Almedom

This paper discusses some of the recent developments in hygiene behaviour research, focusing on operational research. A series of "rapid' assessments of hygiene behaviour were carried out in Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia with a view to preparing a field handbook entitled Hygiene Evaluation Procedures (HEP). The HEP handbook is intended primarily for field personnel in water supply, sanitation an...

Journal: :The Lancet. Infectious diseases 2005
Lorna Fewtrell Rachel B Kaufmann David Kay Wayne Enanoria Laurence Haller John M Colford

Many studies have reported the results of interventions to reduce illness through improvements in drinking water, sanitation facilities, and hygiene practices in less developed countries. There has, however, been no formal systematic review and meta-analysis comparing the evidence of the relative effectiveness of these interventions. We developed a comprehensive search strategy designed to iden...

2014
Katharina Diouf Patrik Tabatabai Jochen Rudolph Michael Marx

BACKGROUND Diarrhoea is the second leading cause of child mortality worldwide. Low- and middle-income countries are particularly burdened with this both preventable and treatable condition. Targeted interventions include the provision of safe water, the use of sanitation facilities and hygiene education, but are implemented with varying local success. OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of ...

2014
Teklemariam Ketema Gultie

Introduction: Menstrual hygiene management has not received adequate attention in the reproductive health sectors in developing countries. In Africa the practice of menstrual hygiene management is still poor and the issue is under estimated. Due to poor menstrual hygiene management the adolescent girls are exposed for reproductive tract infection, school absenteeism and increase school dropout ...

Journal: :Environmental Health Perspectives 2002
Annette Prüss David Kay Lorna Fewtrell Jamie Bartram

We estimated the disease burden from water, sanitation, and hygiene at the global level taking into account various disease outcomes, principally diarrheal diseases. The disability-adjusted life year (DALY) combines the burden from death and disability in a single index and permits the comparison of the burden from water, sanitation, and hygiene with the burden from other risk factors or diseas...

2014

Access to basic drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) is vital to improving health and quality of life globally. As discussions on the post-2015 framework and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) reach their crucial final phase, WaterAid is calling for WASH to be recognised as a key influential factor to be closely integrated into any health goal and priorities taken up by governmen...

2014
Annette Prüss-Ustün Jamie Bartram Thomas Clasen John M Colford Oliver Cumming Valerie Curtis Sophie Bonjour Alan D Dangour Jennifer De France Lorna Fewtrell Matthew C Freeman Bruce Gordon Paul R Hunter Richard B Johnston Colin Mathers Daniel Mäusezahl Kate Medlicott Maria Neira Meredith Stocks Jennyfer Wolf Sandy Cairncross

OBJECTIVE To estimate the burden of diarrhoeal diseases from exposure to inadequate water, sanitation and hand hygiene in low- and middle-income settings and provide an overview of the impact on other diseases. METHODS For estimating the impact of water, sanitation and hygiene on diarrhoea, we selected exposure levels with both sufficient global exposure data and a matching exposure-risk rela...

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