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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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| 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 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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