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Impacts of Social Assistance During the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Poor Remote Communities

open access: yesJournal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing social assistance to poor populations in remote communities in times of crises, such as pandemics, is challenging but crucial. This paper examines how food assistance during the COVID‐19 pandemic affected people's behaviour, using our surveys among over 400 rural communities without road access in the Peruvian Amazon. Food assistance
Yoshito Takasaki   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Handwashing Practices in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Paediatric Intensive Care Unit and Neonatal Nurseries in Patan Hospital

open access: yesJournal of Nepal Health Research Council, 2017
Background: Hand hygiene has been identified as the single most important factor in minimising hospital acquired infections. However, compliance of handwashing guidelines has remained low.
Suchita Joshi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Implikasi Dance Cuci Tangan Enam Langkah terhadap Kemampuan Cuci Tangan Siswa pada Masa New Normal

open access: yesJUMANTIK (Jurnal Ilmiah Penelitian Kesehatan), 2022
Six steps handwashing using soap and running water is one of the efforts to prevent disease. This study aims to determine the implications of the six-step handwashing dance on students' handwashing abilities during the new normal period at SDN 1 ...
Swaidatul Masluhiya AF   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Monitoring sanitation and hygiene in the 2030 agenda for sustainable development: A review through the lens of human rights [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
International monitoring of drinking water and sanitation has been jointly carried out by WHO and UNICEF through their Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP). With the end of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) era in 2015, the JMP has proposed a post-2015
Flores Baquero, Óscar   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

“There Are Places Full of Beauty”: Desettling High School Students' Scientific Writing

open access: yesScience Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study contributes to desettling and expanding expectations about the forms of scientific language that belong in students' scientific writing. The primary empirical focus is the analysis of 52 high school student abstracts articulating community‐based investigations, submitted as part of their participation in a student conference in a ...
Alejandra Frausto Aceves
wiley   +1 more source

Taming systems to create enabling environments for HCV treatment: negotiating trust in the drug and alcohol setting.

open access: yes, 2013
HCV (hepatitis C) treatment uptake among the population most affected - people who inject drugs - is suboptimal. Hospital based treatment provision is one evidenced barrier to HCV treatment uptake.
Harris, Magdalena   +2 more
core   +1 more source

EXPERIENCING MORE‐THAN‐PANDEMIC WATERSCAPES: An Intra‐urban Comparison of Water Practices and Geographies in Nairobi

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract While many African cities, such as Nairobi, fared comparatively well during the pandemic years, urban residents still faced compounded uncertainties and an unequal distribution of burdens that were infrastructurally co‐mediated, for example, within and through place‐specific waterscapes and their socio‐technical infrastructures.
Moritz Kasper   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring social norms related to handwashing: development and psychometric testing of measurement scales in a low-income urban setting in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2022
Objectives To design and test the psychometric properties of four context-specific norm-related scales around handwashing with soap after toilet use: (1) perceived handwashing descriptive norms (HWDN); (2) perceived handwashing injunctive norms (HWIN ...
Simon Cousens   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Consumer Handwashing Research: Handwashing in a Pandemic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Between April 2020 and January 2021, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) with Ipsos MORI collected data on handwashing to understand how and why people wash their hands and the impact the pandemic has had on their handwashing behaviour. This report combines the findings from the qualitative and quantitative research conducted by the FSA alongside other ...
openaire   +1 more source

Promoting Good Hygiene Practices: Key Elements and Practical Lessons [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Summarizes papers and case studies about promoting hygiene in South and Southeast Asia, the Pacific, and Africa. Synthesizes lessons learned, including: know the focus groups, ensure opportunities for change, and enable and motivate good hygiene ...

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