Health

According to the Centers for Disease Control, global access to safe water, adequate sanitation, and proper hygiene education can reduce illness and death from disease, leading to improved health, poverty reduction, and socio-economic development. Resources available in this sub-theme include guidance on installation of cost-effective safe water supply systems and latrines, summaries of health improvements following WASH projects, and other resources that can help to improve the understanding of the health implications of WASH projects.

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Health Resources

CARE Water and Health

Published: 
December 1, 1993
U.S. Agency for International Development
Summarizes final evaluation (XD-ABJ-177-A) of a project (11/91-9/93), implemented by CARE in northwestern Guatemala, to construct water supply structures and latrines and provide health education and training in water system maintenance. The evaluation focused on (1) three activities which CARE...Read more
Regional focus: 
GuatemalaLatin America and the Caribbean

Planning for Urban Environmental Health Programs in Central America: The Development of Water and Sanitation-Related Environmental Health Indicators and The Survey of Existing Data in Three Countries

Published: 
October 1, 1993
U.S. Agency for International Development
Environmental health problems related to water supply and sanitation conditions in urban areas of Central America are documented in this study. The task was carried out in two stages. First, a set of environmental health indicators -- in the areas of water supply, sanitation and wastewater, solid...Read more
Regional focus: 
Latin America and the Caribbean

Summary Report of The Integrated Cholera Control and Prevention Program for Machala, Ecuador

Published: 
September 1, 1993
U.S. Agency for International Development
This report is a summary of the four activities. It relates each activity to the observations made during the 1992 rapid assessment, summarizes the implementation of each activity, and assesses the immediate post-implementation impact. This report also presents an assessment of lessons learned and...Read more
Regional focus: 
EcuadorLatin America and the Caribbean

Water and Sanitation for Health and Ecuadorian Development

Published: 
July 1, 1993
U.S. Agency for International Development
Midterm evaluation of a project to strengthen the capability of Ecuador's Institute of Sanitary Works (IEOS) to assist rural communities in eight provinces (Carchi, Imbabura, Pichincha, Cotopaxi, Chimborazo, Tungurahua, Azuay, and El Oro) to: (1) install cost-effective, safe water supply...Read more
Regional focus: 
EcuadorLatin America and the Caribbean

Evaluation of USAID/Ecuador - Water and Sanitation for Ecuadorian Health and Development (WASHED) Project

Published: 
March 1, 1993
U.S. Agency for International Development
The purpose of this evaluation is to review the progress of the WASHED Project and make recommendations for its continuation or termination by the date of 12-31-93 which is provided for in the Project agreement. This review must determine the degree of design adaptation; the degree of attainment...Read more
Regional focus: 
EcuadorLatin America and the Caribbean

Water Quality Assessment in Ecuador

Published: 
February 1, 1993
U.S. Agency for International Development
As part of A.I.D.'s response to the El Tor cholera epidemic which arrived in Ecuador in 1991, a multidisciplinary team from the Water and Sanitation for Health (WASH) Project conducted a cholera assessment of the country. The team reviewed conditions at both the national level and in three...Read more
Regional focus: 
EcuadorLatin America and the Caribbean

Water Shortage and Related Public Health Problems: an Action Plan for the City of Beira, Mozambique

Published: 
February 1, 1993
U.S. Agency for International Development
Several years of below-average rainfall have produced record-low flows in the Pungoe River , Beira's only surface water supply. While sufficient in quantity to meet Beira's supply needs, these low flows fail to prevent saltwater from reaching the intake, some 77 km from the mouth of the...Read more
Regional focus: 
MozambiqueSub-Saharan Africa

Project Monitoring Report 1991-92: Water and Sanitation for Health and Ecuadorian Development (WASHED)

Published: 
November 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
This report reviews the progress made from July 1991 to mid-September 1992 in the Water and Sanitation for Health and Ecuadorian Development (WASHED) Project, a joint effort of USAID/Ecuador and the Ecuadorian Institute for Sanitary Works (IEOS). It documents the activities to involve project staff...Read more
Regional focus: 
EcuadorLatin America and the Caribbean

Rethinking Sanitation: Adding Behavioral Change to The Project Mix

Published: 
July 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
All too often, water and sanitation projects focus on new facilities to the neglect of sanitation and hygiene behaviors. This study makes a case for letting the determination of what behavioral sanitation changes may reasonably be introduced within the cultural and religious milieu of the target...Read more

Assessment of Interagency Collaboration in the Benin Rural Water and Sanitation Project and Its Guinea Worm Reduction Component

Published: 
May 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
The joint-agency Benin Rural Water and Sanitation Project successfully provided the northern Zou Province with 281 positive wells in villages that received training for social mobilization, pump maintenance and intensive health education.Read more
Regional focus: 
BeninSub-Saharan Africa

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