OBJECTIVE Evaluating dry toilet use in a rural area of Colombia. METHOD Fifteen families were selected by convenience sampling from the rural area of a municipality in the Cundinamarca department in Colombia. A dry (composting) toilet was installed in one house and used for demonstration purposes over a five-month period. An ex-post evaluation was made concerning technical and economic matter...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of an intervention targeting parental behavior on stool toileting refusal. METHODS This study population comprised 406 children aged 17 through 19 months from a single suburban private practice. Children were randomly assigned to receive 1 of 2 written toilet-training instructions. Both groups were advised to use a child-oriented approach to toilet training. I...

Ada banyak karya seni yang hadir di ruang publik, ternyata tidak semuanya memberikan rasa nyaman bagi penikmatnya. juga mengundang perasaan jijik dan muak sebagian orang, sehingga dinilai sebagai kontroversial. Karya semacam itu dapat ditemui Mr. Toilet House, sebuah museum dengan area terbuka dipenuhi instalasi bertema toilet. Meskipun menjijikkan oleh tempat tetap ramai dikunjungi. Artikel in...

OBJECTIVE To compare the ages, by gender, at which normally developing children acquire individual toilet-training skills and to describe the typical sequence by which children achieve complete toileting success. METHODS A longitudinal survey was conducted of a cohort of children who were 15 to 42 months of age and attending 4 pediatric practices in the Milwaukee area (2 inner city and 2 subu...

PURPOSE A framework for multidimensional assessment of patient room configurations is presented. Twenty-three issues are considered and categorized under six domains of assessment: (1) patient safety, (2) staff efficiency, (3) circulation, (4) infection control, (5) patient considerations, and (6) family amenities. Use of the framework to rank issues by importance and assess six alternative pat...