School Sanitation and Hygiene Education

At the eve of the new Millennium, despite all the progress reported world-wide in recent decades, more than 2,3 billion people still live without access to sanitationfacilities and are unable to practise such basic hygiene as washing their hands with soap and water. Diseases related to poor sanitation and water availability cause many people to fall ill or even die. Children are the most vulnerable to health hazards and consequently are affected the most.While the impact of poor sanitation and hygiene is known to be disastrous for small children, it also has an important impact on the health of school-age children including adolescents.As numerous studies show, education and health are inseparable: nutritional deficiencies, diarrhoea and helminth infections affect school participation and learning . Importantly, many of these issues can be addressed effectively through health, hygiene and nutrition policies and programmes for students and staff.Children spend long hours in schools. The school environment will partly determine these children’s health and well–being by providing a healthy or unhealthy environment. Focusing on schools and the people connected to schools has several additional advantages. Compared to adults, children are more receptive to new ideas and can more easily change their behaviour and/or develop new long-term behaviours as a result of increased knowledge and facilitated practices.

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