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Studying hygiene behaviour - where are we now?
Astier Almedom | Valerie Curtis
Water and sanitation programmes aim to improve people's health, mainly by reducing the rates of intestinal infections such as diarrhoea and worms. Long-term benefits will only come about, however, if people change some of their water-use and hygiene-related habits. In recent years,this realization has stimulated a resurgence of interest in the study of hygiene behaviour: what is emerging?
Water and sanitation programmes aim to improve people's health, mainly by reducing the rates of intestinal infections such as diarrhoea and worms. Long-term benefits will only come about, however, if people change some of their water-use and hygiene-related habits. In recent years,
this realization has stimulated a resurgence of interest in the study of hygiene behaviour: what is emerging?
this realization has stimulated a resurgence of interest in the study of hygiene behaviour: what is emerging?
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