The role of handwashing in improving hygiene and health in low-income countries

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 239-240

  Luby, Stephen ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; HAND WASHING; HEALTH; HEALTH EDUCATION; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PUBLIC HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0034869206     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mic.2001.115678     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (6)

1. An educational intervention for altering water-sanitation behaviors to reduce childhood diarrhea in urban Bangladesh
2. Prevention of diarrhoea and dysentery by hand washing
3. Hand washing with soap reduces diarrhoea and spread of bacterial pathogens in a Bangladesh village
4. Measuring the effect of a hygiene behavior intervention by indicators of behavior and diarrhoeal disease