Observed hand cleanliness and other measures of handwashing behavior in rural Bangladesh

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Halder, Amal K ^a   Tronchet, Carole ^b   Akhter, Shamima ^a   Bhuiya, Abbas ^a   Johnston, Richard ^b   Luby, Stephen P ^a,c  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b Water and Environmental Sanitation Section   (Bangladesh)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HAND WASHING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; OBSERVATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS;

ADULT; BANGLADESH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HANDWASHING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVATION; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 77956473715     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-545     Document Type: Article

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