Practical Guidance for Measuring Handwashing Behavior

Advocates of promoting handwashing with soap agree that this behavior has important health benefits across the globe. Efforts, both large-scale and focused, are underway worldwide to promote handwashing with soap at the community level (www.globalh...

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Main Author:	Ram, Pavani
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	ADOLESCENTS AGED BARS BEHAVIOR CHANGE BREASTFEEDING CLEANLINESS COMMUNITY HEALTH COOKING DATA ANALYSIS DATA COLLECTION DIARRHEA DISEASE RISK DISEASE TRANSMISSION EPIDEMIOLOGY FAECAL CONTAMINATION FATIGUE FOOD PREPARATION HAND WASHING HANDS AFTER DEFECATION HANDWASHING HEALTH OUTCOMES HYGIENE BEHAVIOUR HYGIENE EDUCATION HYGIENE PRACTICES HYGIENE PROMOTION HYGIENE PROMOTION PROGRAMS INFECTIOUS DISEASE INFORMED CONSENT INTERVENTION LABORATORIES MORBIDITY MORTALITY NUTRITION PEDIATRICS PERSONAL HYGIENE PUBLIC HEALTH QUALITY CONTROL QUESTIONNAIRES R&D RELIABILITY RESEARCHERS SANITATION SANITATION ACTIVITIES SANITATION SERVICES SCENARIOS SOAP TECHNIQUES VALIDITY VARIABILITY WASH HANDS WITH SOAP WASHING HANDS WATER SUPPLY
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2010/03/12850056/global-scaling-up-handwashing-project-practical-guidance-measuring-handwashing-behavior http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19005

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spelling	okr-10986-190052021-04-23T14:03:51Z Practical Guidance for Measuring Handwashing Behavior Ram, Pavani ADOLESCENTS AGED BARS BEHAVIOR CHANGE BREASTFEEDING CLEANLINESS COMMUNITY HEALTH COOKING DATA ANALYSIS DATA COLLECTION DIARRHEA DISEASE RISK DISEASE TRANSMISSION EPIDEMIOLOGY FAECAL CONTAMINATION FATIGUE FOOD PREPARATION HAND WASHING HANDS AFTER DEFECATION HANDWASHING HEALTH OUTCOMES HYGIENE BEHAVIOUR HYGIENE EDUCATION HYGIENE PRACTICES HYGIENE PROMOTION HYGIENE PROMOTION PROGRAMS INFECTIOUS DISEASE INFORMED CONSENT INTERVENTION LABORATORIES MORBIDITY MORTALITY NUTRITION PEDIATRICS PERSONAL HYGIENE PUBLIC HEALTH QUALITY CONTROL QUESTIONNAIRES R&D RELIABILITY RESEARCHERS SANITATION SANITATION ACTIVITIES SANITATION SERVICES SCENARIOS SOAP TECHNIQUES VALIDITY VARIABILITY WASH HANDS WITH SOAP WASHING HANDS WATER SUPPLY Advocates of promoting handwashing with soap agree that this behavior has important health benefits across the globe. Efforts, both large-scale and focused, are underway worldwide to promote handwashing with soap at the community level (www.globalhandwashing.org). Although there is broad agreement about the health benefits of promoting handwashing with soap, there is not similar agreement about the best ways to measure the behavior that these promotion programs set out to change. The reality is this: there is no universally applicable method for measuring handwashing behavior that is valid, relevant, affordable, and logistically feasible for the various settings in which such behavior might need to be measured. The aim of this document is to describe techniques and to propose strategies for measuring handwashing behavior for a variety of scenarios. 2014-07-22T21:40:44Z 2014-07-22T21:40:44Z 2010-03 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2010/03/12850056/global-scaling-up-handwashing-project-practical-guidance-measuring-handwashing-behavior http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19005 English en_US Water and Sanitation Program : working paper; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Working Paper Publications & Research
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topic	ADOLESCENTS AGED BARS BEHAVIOR CHANGE BREASTFEEDING CLEANLINESS COMMUNITY HEALTH COOKING DATA ANALYSIS DATA COLLECTION DIARRHEA DISEASE RISK DISEASE TRANSMISSION EPIDEMIOLOGY FAECAL CONTAMINATION FATIGUE FOOD PREPARATION HAND WASHING HANDS AFTER DEFECATION HANDWASHING HEALTH OUTCOMES HYGIENE BEHAVIOUR HYGIENE EDUCATION HYGIENE PRACTICES HYGIENE PROMOTION HYGIENE PROMOTION PROGRAMS INFECTIOUS DISEASE INFORMED CONSENT INTERVENTION LABORATORIES MORBIDITY MORTALITY NUTRITION PEDIATRICS PERSONAL HYGIENE PUBLIC HEALTH QUALITY CONTROL QUESTIONNAIRES R&D RELIABILITY RESEARCHERS SANITATION SANITATION ACTIVITIES SANITATION SERVICES SCENARIOS SOAP TECHNIQUES VALIDITY VARIABILITY WASH HANDS WITH SOAP WASHING HANDS WATER SUPPLY
spellingShingle	ADOLESCENTS AGED BARS BEHAVIOR CHANGE BREASTFEEDING CLEANLINESS COMMUNITY HEALTH COOKING DATA ANALYSIS DATA COLLECTION DIARRHEA DISEASE RISK DISEASE TRANSMISSION EPIDEMIOLOGY FAECAL CONTAMINATION FATIGUE FOOD PREPARATION HAND WASHING HANDS AFTER DEFECATION HANDWASHING HEALTH OUTCOMES HYGIENE BEHAVIOUR HYGIENE EDUCATION HYGIENE PRACTICES HYGIENE PROMOTION HYGIENE PROMOTION PROGRAMS INFECTIOUS DISEASE INFORMED CONSENT INTERVENTION LABORATORIES MORBIDITY MORTALITY NUTRITION PEDIATRICS PERSONAL HYGIENE PUBLIC HEALTH QUALITY CONTROL QUESTIONNAIRES R&D RELIABILITY RESEARCHERS SANITATION SANITATION ACTIVITIES SANITATION SERVICES SCENARIOS SOAP TECHNIQUES VALIDITY VARIABILITY WASH HANDS WITH SOAP WASHING HANDS WATER SUPPLY Ram, Pavani Practical Guidance for Measuring Handwashing Behavior
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description	Advocates of promoting handwashing with soap agree that this behavior has important health benefits across the globe. Efforts, both large-scale and focused, are underway worldwide to promote handwashing with soap at the community level (www.globalhandwashing.org). Although there is broad agreement about the health benefits of promoting handwashing with soap, there is not similar agreement about the best ways to measure the behavior that these promotion programs set out to change. The reality is this: there is no universally applicable method for measuring handwashing behavior that is valid, relevant, affordable, and logistically feasible for the various settings in which such behavior might need to be measured. The aim of this document is to describe techniques and to propose strategies for measuring handwashing behavior for a variety of scenarios.
format	Publications & Research :: Working Paper
author	Ram, Pavani
author_facet	Ram, Pavani
author_sort	Ram, Pavani
title	Practical Guidance for Measuring Handwashing Behavior
title_short	Practical Guidance for Measuring Handwashing Behavior
title_full	Practical Guidance for Measuring Handwashing Behavior
title_fullStr	Practical Guidance for Measuring Handwashing Behavior
title_full_unstemmed	Practical Guidance for Measuring Handwashing Behavior
title_sort	practical guidance for measuring handwashing behavior
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2014
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2010/03/12850056/global-scaling-up-handwashing-project-practical-guidance-measuring-handwashing-behavior http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19005
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