Hand Hygiene Practices in Schools

A Guide to Best-Practice in Developing Countries

Balwani Chingatichifwe Mbakaya

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781032342290
• eBook ISBN: 9781000849462
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Health Care Delivery

This book provides essential guidance to help schools in developing countries to promote and maintain hand hygiene practices, thus reducing the prevalence of infectious diseases such as diarrhoea and respiratory infection that cause both illness and absenteeism.

Discussing both the challenges that hinder hand hygiene practices and the opportunities available to promote positive behaviours, it is particularly timely since the onset of the global Covid-19 pandemic, where infection could also be passed on through the hands. Drawing on both evidence-based research and successful interventions in specific countries, the book builds to offer a best-practice manual to address this important issue.

This will be ideal reading for public health and community health working in developing regions, as well as those working for NGO's.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of contributors
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• 1 Overview of hand hygiene
• 2 The encyclopaedia of hand hygiene – what it is all about?
• 3 Status of hand hygiene practices among schoolchildren in developing countries
• 4 Factors influencing hand hygiene practices among schoolchildren in developing countries
• 5 Opportunities to embrace hand hygiene practices among schoolchildren
• 6 Lessons derived from developed countries
• 7 Recommended strategies to improve hand hygiene compliance among schoolchildren in developing countries
• 8 Way forward
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2
• Index