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Unsafe Disposal of Child Faeces: A Community-based Study in a Rural Block in West Bengal, India
OBJECTIVES: A clean India is the responsibility of all Indians. One of the objectives of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Initiative) is to bring about behavioural changes regarding healthy sanitation practices. While large-scale programs in India have increased latrine coverage, they have to...
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Korean Society for Preventive Medicine
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5066419/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27744673 http://dx.doi.org/10.3961/jpmph.16.020 |
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author | PS, Preeti Sahoo, Sanjaya Kumar Biswas, Dhiraj Dasgupta, Aparajita |
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description | OBJECTIVES: A clean India is the responsibility of all Indians. One of the objectives of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Initiative) is to bring about behavioural changes regarding healthy sanitation practices. While large-scale programs in India have increased latrine coverage, they have to some extent failed to bring behavioural changes ensuring optimal latrine use, including the safe disposal of child faeces, which is a significant source of exposure to faecal pathogens. Hence, this study was done to explore child faeces disposal practices in rural West Bengal and to elicit the determinants of unhygienic faeces disposal. METHODS: Data collection was done using an interview method among the mothers of 502 under-5 children, following a pre-designed, semi-structured schedule during house-to-house visits in a set of villages in the Hooghly district of West Bengal. RESULTS: The prevalence of unsafe disposal of child faeces was 72.4%, and maternal education, per capita income, and water source were found to be significantly associated with unsafe child faeces disposal. CONCLUSIONS: This study draws attention to the unsafe disposal of child faeces in this area of India and raises questions about the efficiency of sanitation campaigns in rural India that focus on expanding coverage rather than emphasizing behavioural changes, which are crucial to ensure the safe disposal of child faeces. Thus, it is urgently necessary to strengthen efforts focusing on behavioural changes regarding the safe disposal of child faeces in order to minimise adverse health outcomes. |
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spelling | pubmed-50664192016-10-26 Unsafe Disposal of Child Faeces: A Community-based Study in a Rural Block in West Bengal, India PS, Preeti Sahoo, Sanjaya Kumar Biswas, Dhiraj Dasgupta, Aparajita J Prev Med Public Health Original Article OBJECTIVES: A clean India is the responsibility of all Indians. One of the objectives of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Initiative) is to bring about behavioural changes regarding healthy sanitation practices. While large-scale programs in India have increased latrine coverage, they have to some extent failed to bring behavioural changes ensuring optimal latrine use, including the safe disposal of child faeces, which is a significant source of exposure to faecal pathogens. Hence, this study was done to explore child faeces disposal practices in rural West Bengal and to elicit the determinants of unhygienic faeces disposal. METHODS: Data collection was done using an interview method among the mothers of 502 under-5 children, following a pre-designed, semi-structured schedule during house-to-house visits in a set of villages in the Hooghly district of West Bengal. RESULTS: The prevalence of unsafe disposal of child faeces was 72.4%, and maternal education, per capita income, and water source were found to be significantly associated with unsafe child faeces disposal. CONCLUSIONS: This study draws attention to the unsafe disposal of child faeces in this area of India and raises questions about the efficiency of sanitation campaigns in rural India that focus on expanding coverage rather than emphasizing behavioural changes, which are crucial to ensure the safe disposal of child faeces. Thus, it is urgently necessary to strengthen efforts focusing on behavioural changes regarding the safe disposal of child faeces in order to minimise adverse health outcomes. Korean Society for Preventive Medicine 2016-09 2016-09-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5066419/ /pubmed/27744673 http://dx.doi.org/10.3961/jpmph.16.020 Text en Copyright © 2016 The Korean Society for Preventive Medicine This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article PS, Preeti Sahoo, Sanjaya Kumar Biswas, Dhiraj Dasgupta, Aparajita Unsafe Disposal of Child Faeces: A Community-based Study in a Rural Block in West Bengal, India |
title | Unsafe Disposal of Child Faeces: A Community-based Study in a Rural Block in West Bengal, India |
title_full | Unsafe Disposal of Child Faeces: A Community-based Study in a Rural Block in West Bengal, India |
title_fullStr | Unsafe Disposal of Child Faeces: A Community-based Study in a Rural Block in West Bengal, India |
title_full_unstemmed | Unsafe Disposal of Child Faeces: A Community-based Study in a Rural Block in West Bengal, India |
title_short | Unsafe Disposal of Child Faeces: A Community-based Study in a Rural Block in West Bengal, India |
title_sort | unsafe disposal of child faeces: a community-based study in a rural block in west bengal, india |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5066419/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27744673 http://dx.doi.org/10.3961/jpmph.16.020 |
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