A "non-blind" randomized hand washing intervention study was conducted in a low socioeconomic community in Rangoon to determine if hand... Read more...
Fifty-seven mothers in Indonesia were involved in a face-to-face health education which encouraged hand-washing with soap. The intervention spanned 4... Read more...
This study assessed the involvement of women in the Mirzapur handpump project in Bangladesh, over a four-year period (1984-1987). Read more...
An epidemiological survey carried out in the Dodoma region of Tanzania found that high rates of trachoma infection in pre-school children were... Read more...
To understand the roles of specific maternal and domestic hygiene practices in preventing diarrhoea, 611 rural children aged under 5 years in... Read more...
This letter describes the LePSA method for training mothers to recognise different severity levels of diarrhoea and treat each appropriately or seek... Read more...
This study examines the effect of maternal personal and domestic hygiene on the incidence of diarrhoea in children aged 6-23 months from rural areas... Read more...
One hundred and eight rural mothers were interviewed about childhood diarrhoea. Read more...
This article takes a look at why past policies have failed and, using World Bank experience, examines which new policies may show promise. The... Read more...
This paper points to the inadequacies in the provision of social infrastructure (including schools, health care facilities and water supply and... Read more...