Sanitation is the provision of facilities and services for the safe management and disposal of human excreta, wastewater, and solid waste, together with the hygiene practices that interrupt the transmission of disease through the environment. As a cornerstone of public health, sanitation breaks the fecal-oral and en…
Sanitation is the provision of facilities and services for the safe management and disposal of human excreta, wastewater, and solid waste, together with the hygiene practices that interrupt the transmission of disease through the environment. As a cornerstone of public health, sanitation breaks the fecal-oral and environmental pathways by which pathogens spread, and it is closely linked to safe water, hygiene, and improved sanitation infrastructure such as latrines. Inadequate sanitation drives waterborne and parasitic infections, diarrheal disease, undernutrition, and stunted growth, with the heaviest burden falling on children and rural and low-resource communities. Research relevant to this topic includes the impact of environmental sanitation and hygiene on nutritional status, the threat of malaria, knowledge and practices for the prevention of tungiasis, municipal decision-making strategies to combat waterborne diseases, modeling of typhoid fever transmission, the prevalence of intestinal parasitic helminths among schoolchildren, diarrhea and its associated factors in under-five children, improved latrine coverage and its determinants, undernutrition and stunting among young children, and the environmental risk posed by waste dumpsites. Methods include cross-sectional surveys, transmission modeling, and environmental and epidemiological assessment, often in sub-Saharan African and South Asian settings. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research on sanitation, hygiene, and their role in preventing tropical and infectious disease.
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