Presentation on Health and Hygiene

Lecture-03

By
Prof. Dr. Ganesh Chandra Saha
Civil Engineering Department
DUET, Gazipur

Presentation Contents
Title

Subtitle

1.Health, Hygiene, and Use of

Health and Hygiene, Diseases Facilities
Description, Transmission and 2.Fecal-oral Routes of Diseases
Control, Hygiene Education, Transmission
3. Preventives measures/control
Scope and Methodology.
4. Cultural Aspects
5. Hygiene Education
6. Scope of Hygiene Education
7. Methodology of Hygiene
Education

HEALTH, HYGIENE, AND USE OF FACILITIES

Fecal-oral Routes of Diseases Transmission

Preventives measures/Control
The preventive measures listed in the box below are
particularly
helpful
in
interrupting
diseases
transmission:
Safe human excreta disposal
Personal hygiene
Domestic hygiene
Food hygiene
Water hygiene
Safe wastewater disposal and drainage

Cultural Aspects
People believe that sweet or sugary food is the causes of
worm
Excreta of babies and little children are considered to be
harmless
Hygiene Education
Hygiene education can be defined as a process which
promotes condition and practices that prevent water and
sanitation related diseases

Scope of Hygiene Education

Community-based surveillance
Hygiene behaviors: Behaviors to be recommended in

hygiene education:
Water source
Water treatment
Water collection
Water storage
Water drinking:
Water use

Planning Hygiene Education

Planning
hygiene
education
in
a
community involves the following steps:
dialogue with the community and local
agencies;
selection of priority hygiene behaviors to be
changed, based on surveil- lance data and felt
needs within the community;
analysis of influence on selected behaviors
and the implications for hygiene education.

Educational methods
Characteristics of effective health education
Promotes actions that are realistic and feasible within the
constraints faced by the
community
Builds on ideas and concepts that people already have
and on common practices
Is repeated and reinforced over time using different
methods
Uses existing channels of communication, e.g. songs,
drama, and story-telling, and can be appropriately
adapted to these media
Is entertaining and attracts the communitys attention

Potential human resources for hygiene education in the

community
Health services:
Doctors and nurses in primary health care
Midwives
Health visitors

Public health nurses

Medical assistants
Nutrition programs
Immunization programs
Special disease programs
Village health workers
Sanitary technicians
Veterinarians

Agricultural and development workers:

Agricultural extension workers

Community development workers
Nutrition programmed staff
Cooperative workers
Employment-generating programmed

staff
Womens programmed staff

Public health services:

Public health inspectors
Water supply staff
Sanitary technicians Hygiene inspectors
Refuse management staff
Sanitary engineers
Informal resources in the community:
Elders
Parents
Traditional birth attendants
Traditional healers
Village leaders
Religious leaders

Education services:

Teachers in primary and secondary schools

Adult education staff
Literacy programmed staff
Preschool programmed staff
Public health services: Vocational trainers

Thanks to All