Sustaining school hand washing and water treatment programmes: Lessons learned and to be learned

Waterlines

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 298-310

  Saboori, Shadi ^a   Mwaki, Alex ^b   Porter, Sarah E ^a   Okech, Ben ^b   Freeman, Matthew C ^c   Rheingans, Richard D ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Enabling environment; Hand washing with soap; Recurrent costs; School sanitation

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HYGIENE; LEADERSHIP; LEARNING; SANITATION; STUDENT; WATER TREATMENT;

KENYA; NYANZA;

EID: 80455141440     PISSN: 02628104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3362/1756-3488.2011.040     Document Type: Article

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