Background Hygiene promotion interventions are likely to be more effective if they target the
determinants of handwashing behaviour. Synthesis of the evidence on the determinants of …

Handwashing with soap (HWWS) may be one of the most cost-effective means of preventing
infection in developing countries. However, HWWS is rare in these settings. We reviewed …

Although promotion of safe hygiene is the single most cost-effective means of preventing
infectious disease, investment in hygiene is low both in the health and in the water and …

Each year more than 2 million children die from diarrhoeal diseases; the same number
again die from acute respiratory infections. The simple hygiene behaviour of washing hands …

Abstract Background In Bangladesh diarrhoeal disease and respiratory infections contribute
significantly to morbidity and mortality. Handwashing with soap reduces the risk of infection; …

Access to improved sanitation is a key preventive measure against sanitary-related gastro-
enteric diseases such as diarrhoea. We assessed the access to sanitation facilities and …

Improved hand hygiene efficiently prevents the major killers of children under the age of five
years in Ethiopia and globally, namely diarrhoeal and respiratory diseases. Effective …

Recent outbreaks of Ebola virus disease (2013–2016) and Zika virus (2015–2016) bring
renewed recognition of the need to understand social pathways of disease transmission and …

Background We analyzed data from the baseline assessment of a large intervention project
to describe typical handwashing practices in rural Bangladesh, and compare measures of …

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