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  2. Sanitation - Wikipedia

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    Studies have suggested that the impact of hygiene practices have as great an impact on sanitation related diseases as the actual provision of sanitation facilities. Hygiene promotion is therefore an important part of sanitation and is usually key in maintaining good health. [50] Hygiene promotion is a planned approach of enabling people to act ...

  3. Hygiene - Wikipedia

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    Hygiene is a practice [3] related to lifestyle, cleanliness, health, and medicine. In medicine and everyday life, hygiene practices are preventive measures that reduce the incidence and spread of germs leading to disease. [4] Hygiene practices vary from one culture to another. [5]

  4. WASH - Wikipedia

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    It can also lead to children becoming agents of change for improving water, sanitation and hygiene practices in their families and communities. [ 85 ] For example, data from over 10,000 schools in Zambia was analyzed in 2017 and confirmed that improved sanitation provision in schools was correlated with high female-to-male enrollment ratios ...

  5. Food safety - Wikipedia

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    Food safety (or food hygiene) is used as a scientific method/discipline describing handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness. The occurrence of two or more cases of a similar illness resulting from the ingestion of a common food is known as a food-borne disease outbreak. [ 1 ]

  6. Cleanliness - Wikipedia

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    HygienePractices performed to preserve health; Lady Macbeth effect; Pollution – Introduction of contaminants that cause adverse change; Ritual purification – Bathing or washing as a religious ritual; Waste management – Activities and actions required to manage waste from its source to its final disposal

  7. Hand washing - Wikipedia

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    Hand washing at a global level has its own indicator within Sustainable Development Goal 6, Target 6.2 which states "By 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations. [87]

  8. Fecal–oral route - Wikipedia

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    Main causes of fecal–oral disease transmission include lack of adequate sanitation (leading to open defecation), and poor hygiene practices. If soil or water bodies are polluted with fecal material, humans can be infected with waterborne diseases or soil-transmitted diseases. Fecal contamination of food is another form of fecal-oral transmission.

  9. Environmental health - Wikipedia

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    Harmful chemicals in drinking water can negatively affect health. Unsafe water management practices can increase the prevalence of water-borne diseases and sanitation-related illnesses. [66] [67] Inadequate disinfecting of wastewater in industrial and agricultural centers can also infect hundreds of millions of people with contaminated water. [65]