School and Industrial Kitchen Sanitation and Hygiene Practices among HRM Graduates

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 hygiene approaches

Field Hygiene and Sanitation

Impact of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Interventions on Improving Health Outcomes among School Children

PURPOSE This review was done to explore the impact of water treatment, hygiene, and sanitary interventions on improving child health outcomes such as absenteeism, infections, knowledge, attitudes, and practices and adoption of point-of-use water treatment. METHODS A literature search was conducted using the databases PubMed and Google scholar for studies published between 2009 and 2012 and fo...

Improved Sanitation, Hygiene, and Poverty

The second section looks at the relationship between improved sanitation coverage and poverty by fi rst comparing poverty indicators and coverage rates for Uganda’s subcounties. It then identifi es the rural subcounties that did not achieve the country’s target for improved sanitation in Uganda’s fi rst Health Sector Strategic Plan (HSSP I).4 These subcounties will require special attention to ...