This article describes a community-based hygiene intervention in five villages of lowland Bangladesh which was developed with the active participation of members of the target group.
| Title | Assessment of the impact of a hygiene intervention on environmental sanitation, childhood diarrhoea, and the growth of children in rural Bangladesh |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 1994 |
| Authors | Ahmed, NU, Zeitlin, MF, Beiser, AS, Super, CM, Gershoff, SN, Ahmed, MA |
| Pagination | p. 40-52: 5 fig., 5 tab. |
| Date Published | 1994-01-01 |
| Keywords | bangladesh, child health, diarrhoeal diseases, evaluation, food hygiene, hand washing, infants, morbidity, personal hygiene, research, rural areas |
| Abstract | This article describes a community-based hygiene intervention in five villages of lowland Bangladesh which was developed with the active participation of members of the target group. The objective being to reduce childhood diarrhoea by altering ground sanitation and personal and food hygiene practices. Examples covered by this article include the washing of hands with ash before handling food and after defecation-related activities, cutting fingernails, removing faeces from the child's body and from the yard, using tube-well water for preparing baby food, and reducing supplementary feeding contamination by proper cleaning of bottles or avoiding bottle-feeding. The purpose of the study was to assess the impact of local adaptive behaviours on mothers' knowledge and behaviour, and on the diarrhoeal morbidity and nutrition of children 9-18 months old. |
| Notes | 45 ref. |
| Custom 1 | 245.11, 822 |
