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Hygiene promotion is a planned approach of enabling people to act and change their behavior in an order to reduce and/or prevent incidences of water, sanitation and hygiene [51] related diseases. It usually involves a participatory approach of engaging people to take responsibility of WASH services and infrastructure including its operation and ...
Access to sanitation services is included in Target 6.2 of Sustainable Development Goal 6, which is: "By 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations."
Hygiene is a practice [3] related to lifestyle, cleanliness, health, and medicine. In medicine and everyday life, hygiene practices are preventive measures that reduce the incidence and spread of germs leading to disease. [4] Hygiene practices vary from one culture to another. [5]
It consists of three categories: health impacts, air quality, and water and sanitation. The health impacts category includes the environmental risk exposure indicator. Environmental health is the branch of public health concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment affecting human health.
Hand washing at a global level has its own indicator within Sustainable Development Goal 6, Target 6.2 which states "By 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations. [87]
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Hygiene" ... Failures of water supply and sanitation systems; Fine Hygienic Holding;
Equitable sanitation and hygiene solutions address the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations, such as the elderly or people with disabilities. [ citation needed ] This target has one indicator: Indicator 6.2.1 is the "Proportion of population using (a) safely managed sanitation services and (b) a hand-washing facility with ...
"Worldwide burden of disease from exposure to second-hand smoke: a retrospective analysis of data from 192 countries" (PDF). World Health Organization. Prüss, Annette; Havelaar, Arie (2001). Fewtrell, Lorna; Bartram, Jamie (eds.). "The Global Burden of Disease study and applications in water, sanitation and hygiene" (PDF).