Open defecation poses a health threat for the fishing communities in Trivandrum district, Kerala, India. This paper proposes four alternative... Read more...
Provides guidelines on low-cost solid waste disposal for small hospitals or health centres in rural areas of developing countries. The article covers... Read more...
The experience of the Rural Domestic Water Supply and Sanitation Project (RDWSSP) in Western Kenya shows that theatre is a more effective medium than... Read more...
This article charts the progress of a two-year project, carried out by the ODA-funded Environmental Health Programme at the London School of Hygiene... Read more...
Between January 1987 and March 1988 a health impact evaluation (HIE) of the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project (RWSSP) was conducted in... Read more...
Fifty-seven mothers in Indonesia were involved in a face-to-face health education which encouraged hand-washing with soap. The intervention spanned 4... Read more...
During a 6-month period 185 rural Bangladeshi children (80 boys and 105 girls) aged 4-27 months were observed to investigate developmental,... Read more...
One hundred and eight rural mothers were interviewed about childhood diarrhoea. Read more...
This article deals with visual literacy in rural communities. It is based on a field study carried out in 1987 in the Indian-Danish Orissa Drinking... Read more...
This article describes a community-based hygiene intervention in five villages of lowland Bangladesh which was developed with the active... Read more...