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Mortality rate attributable to unsafe water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). [35] The "F-diagram" (feces, fingers, flies, fields, fluids, food), showing pathways of fecal–oral disease transmission. The vertical blue lines show barriers: toilets, safe water, hygiene and hand washing.
Hygiene promotion is a planned approach of enabling people to act and change their behavior in an order to reduce and/or prevent incidences of water, sanitation and hygiene [51] related diseases. It usually involves a participatory approach of engaging people to take responsibility of WASH services and infrastructure including its operation and ...
Most waterborne diseases cause diarrheal illness [Note: not all diseases listed below cause diarrhea]. Eighty-eight percent of diarrhea cases worldwide are linked to unsafe drinking water, inadequate sanitation or insufficient hygiene. These cases result in 1.5 million deaths each year, mostly in young children.
Now a water, sanitation and hygiene consultant for over ten years, McWilliams founded Point of Shift to create circular systems for clients within the US. - Kelsey McWilliams/Point of Shift
Still, nearly one billion people are forced to defecate outdoors, and the World Health Organization and UNICEF say 2.8 billion people live with unsafe sanitation facilities, leading to disease.
Open defecation—and lack of sanitation and hygiene in general—is an important cause of various diseases. The most common are diarrhea and intestinal worm infections , also including typhoid , cholera , hepatitis , polio , trachoma , and others.
Mortality rate attributable to unsafe water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) [32] The "F-diagram" (feces, fingers, flies, fields, fluids, food), showing pathways of fecal–oral disease transmission. The vertical blue lines show barriers: toilets , safe water , hygiene and handwashing .
It has been estimated that 58% of all cases of diarrhea worldwide in 2015 were caused by unsafe water, poor sanitation and poor hygiene practices, such as inadequate handwashing. [54] This resulted in half a million children under the age of five dying from diarrhea per year. [55]