A critique of approaches to measuring effective hand washing in Mpumalanga, South Africa.

作者: Julie Callet-Pariel , Nancy Moilwa , Melanie Wilkinson

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摘要: Diarrhoeal disease was ranked fifth on the list of causes premature mortality in South Africa 2000. High standards of hygiene and access to safe water sanitation services can be related a reduced risk diarrhea. Based understanding and interpretation good sanitation, hygiene practices Africa, all programmes and interventions country focus some degree hand washing behaviours. Health hygiene interventions are implemented from knowledge that act as barrier several transmission routes diarrhoeal pathogens. As result, many begin with baseline assessment which includes review present practices. This paper focuses specifically the measurement one aspect health awareness namely The paper is critique methods used assessing these household behaviours two villages Mpumalanga Province of South Africa.

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