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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Training Plan for the Water and Sanitation Component of Sanru II

Published: 
November 1, 1985
U.S. Agency for International Development
The WASH Project assisted the USAID mission in Zaire in developing a training plan for the water and sanitation component of the SANRU II Project. The purpose of the SANRU II Project is to establish sustainable community supported primary health care systems in 50 health rural zones in Zaire...Read more
Regional focus: 
Congo, Democratic Republic of theSub-Saharan Africa

Proposed Water Supply and Sanitation Strategies for the Ministry of Public Health in the Thailand Sixth Five-Year Plan, 1987-1991

Published: 
November 1, 1985
U.S. Agency for International Development
At the request of the Ministry of Public Health within the Royal Thai Government, USAID arranged the submission of a Master Plan for Rural Water and Sanitation by the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok to the National Economic and Social Development Board of the Government of Thailand...Read more
Regional focus: 
ThailandEast Asia and Pacific

Strengthening Linkages Between Primary Health Care and Water Supply Projects

Published: 
January 1, 1985
U.S. Agency for International Development
This study looks at strengthening linkages between primary health care and water supply projects. Primary health care and water supply projects in developing countries are often planned and implemented separately; yet there should be important linkages between them. The failure to make the linkages...Read more

Assistance in The Development of a Water and Sanitation Policy for Ecuador

Published: 
March 1, 1984
U.S. Agency for International Development
This report summarizes the work of a team that provided technical assistance to the Sub secretary for Environmental Quality [Subsecretarla de Saneamiento Ambiental or SSA] of the Government of Ecuador (GOE). The consultant team was provided by the Water and Sanitation for Health (WASH) Project at...Read more
Regional focus: 
EcuadorLatin America and the Caribbean

Rationale and Strategy for Initiating Water Supply and Sanitation Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa

Published: 
February 1, 1984
U.S. Agency for International Development
Report on rationale and strategy for initiating water supply and sanitation programs in Sub-Saharan Africa. This strategy should be read in conjunction with the Africa Health Strategy Statement, dated January 1983, since this statement is designed to reach the same audience, namely in-country...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Impact of Improved Water Supplies and Excreta Disposal Facilities on Diarrheal Morbidity, Growth and Mortality Among Children

Published: 
January 1, 1984
U.S. Agency for International Development
Many studies have tried to associate water supply and sanitation facilities with health status. The published results are confusing and contradictory because of methodological problems. This review attempts to establish a cause-effect relationship between water and sanitation and diarrheal...Read more

Relationship Between Literacy and Feeding Patterns on Infant Mortality: the Interaction With Water and Sanitation

Published: 
January 1, 1984
U.S. Agency for International Development
Recent studies of the effects of water and sanitation conditions on infant mortality have produced contradictory findings. This study expands upon previous research to investigate water and sanitation effects in light of other variables: mothers' education, infant feeding practices other than...Read more

Assessment of the Environmental Sanitation Construction Component: Integrated Health and Nutrition Systems Project in Guatemala

Published: 
November 1, 1983
U.S. Agency for International Development
The Integrated Health and Nutrition System Project was initiated with the signing of the loan agreement on September 30, 1980. The project is designed to improve the health/nutrition status and overall welfare of the rural poor in the departments of Totonicapan, San Marcos and Solola through full...Read more
Regional focus: 
GuatemalaLatin America and the Caribbean

Workshop on Sanitation in Bakel, Senegal, April 20 - May 3, 1983: an Assessment of Environmental Health Conditions

Published: 
June 1, 1983
U.S. Agency for International Development
In spring 1983, a workshop on rural sanitation, herein summarized, was held in Bakel, Senegal, to give 16 people, including 12 nurses participating in A.I.D.'s Small Irrigated Perimeters Project, the skills needed to plan village-level sanitation projects. The workshop focused on latrine...Read more
Regional focus: 
SenegalSub-Saharan Africa

Relating Improvements in Water Supply and Sanitation to Nutritional Status

Published: 
October 1, 1982
U.S. Agency for International Development
This paper assumes a causal relationship, although poorly discerned and incompletely described, between certain improvements in water supply and sanitation and the nutritional status of older infants and young children (age 8 months to 4 years). Since the debate surrounding this relationship bears...Read more

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