Can Leaders Promote Better Health Behavior? Learning from a Sanitation and Hygiene Communication Experiment in Rural Bangladesh

Atonu Rabbani

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Abstract: This study looks at the roles that local women leaders can play in addressing the important environmental health issue of sanitation and hand hygiene by improving access to quality sanitation and hygiene practices through information and education campaigns and promotions. Pathogens of fecal origins (coliforms and other bacteria in addition to helminthes) still pose an important public health hazard for poor households in Bangladesh and elsewhere, which impose a significant disease and mortality burden.

Keywords: Sanitation and hygiene promotion; Female leadership; Microbial outcomes; Randomized evaluation; financial investment; female caregivers; latrine construction; education; campaign. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-07
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