Environmental Hygiene

Environmental hygiene is critical to ensure a safe local environment for disaster-affected populations. These projects could include vector control activities, like rubbish collection and disposal, site improvements and drainage, or community chlorine spraying during disease outbreaks.
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Environmental Transmission of SARS at Amoy Gardens

Recent investigations into the March 2003 outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong have concluded that environmental factors played an important role in the transmission of the disease.

Publication year: 2006    Reporting Agency: New York City Office of Emergency Management    Author(s): McKinney_K., Gong_Y., Lewis_T.

Cash-based Interventions for WASH Programmes in Refugee Settings

This report is based on a desk-based review of secondary data, comprising published material as well as grey literature, supplemented with key informant interviews for programmes that lacked documentation.

Publication year: 2016    Reporting Agency: UNHCR    Author(s): UNHCR

Technical brief on water sanitation hygiene and wastewater management to prevent infections and reduce the spread of antimicrobial resistance

This technical brief provides information to inform water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and wastewater elements within multi-sectoral antimicrobial resistance (AMR) national action plans (NAPs).

Publication year: 2020    Reporting Agency: World Health Organization - WHO, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, World Organization for Animal Health    Author(s): Medlicott_K., Wester_A., Gordon_B., Montgomery_M., Tayler_E., Sutherland_D., Schmoll_O.

Multisectoral approach for the prevention and control of vector-borne diseases

The emergence, transmission and distribution of vector-borne diseases (VBDs) are determined by the pathogens, the vectors, the environment, the socio-economics and the health system.

Publication year: 2020    Reporting Agency: World Health Organization - WHO    Author(s): World Health Organization

WASH ePaper - Market Based Programming in Humanitarian WASH

Humanitarians increasingly view market-based programming (MBP) and cash-transfer programming (CTP) as an effective response to address humanitarian needs of affected people. This is particularly reflected in the cash commitments made under the Grand Bargain of the World Humanitarian Summit.

Publication year: 2017    Reporting Agency: German Toilet Organization    Author(s): German Toilet Organization