Despite clear evidence of the adverse health impacts of unsafe child feces disposal (CFD),
there is little evidence of the effectiveness of interventions targeting the improvement of …

Background: According to the World Health Organization/United Nations International
Children's Fund Joint Monitoring Program, 494 million people practice open defecation …

Globally, notable emphasis is currently being placed on improving access to and
acceptance of sanitation in schools as part of the drive towards achieving the United Nations …

Latrines are an effective way for people in low-and middle-income countries to move away
from open defecation. Guidelines are used to provide a recommended horizontal setback …

Promotion appears to be the least effective but is nevertheless often the only available,
means to achieve increased access to sanitation services, especially at scale, in lower …

Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) have remained a key worldwide problem. It is a
basic requirement for human survival life and well-being. A public health issue is a lack of …

This thesis contributes to the body of evidence on the role of water, sanitation and
handwashing (WASH) in improving child growth outcomes. This chapter summarizes the …

Approximately 22% of Ghanaians are involved in the practise of open defecation. In 2014,
the Sagnarigu Municipality embraced Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) as a strategy …

With the inevitably increasing urbanization of various cities, there has come an increasing
amount of fecal sludge collected in all cities globally. Such an incidence has consequentially …