The National Control of Dairrhoeal Diseases Programme for children under 5 years, begun in 1986, (ORT Programme) seeks to prevent deaths due to... Read more...
This field note describes the design, production and testing of a training video on communication skills for community health workers in Papua New... Read more...
The article discusses existing information services on health in developing countries, in particluar the Diarrhoeal Diseases Information Services... Read more...
Field workers in Nigeria were trained to make structured observations on hygiene behaviour of mothers and children that had a bearing on diarrhoeal... Read more...
Between January 1987 and March 1988 a case-control study of the impact of improved water sources on childhood diarrhoea was conducted in Kurunegala... Read more...
Between January 1987 and March 1988 a health impact evaluation (HIE) of the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project (RWSSP) was conducted in... Read more...
A "non-blind" randomized hand washing intervention study was conducted in a low socioeconomic community in Rangoon to determine if hand... Read more...
Sixty-five mothers from Balai Lua, Central Lombok, Indonesia were given soap and an explanation of the faecal oral route of diarrhoea transmission. 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 article examines the perceptions of cleanliness and the role of soap and hand washing in two poor Bangladeshi communities, one rural and one... Read more...