Hygiene

Hygiene programming includes specific messaging and information sharing, in addition to considering who is targeted and how beneficiaries are equipped and engaged. Example hygiene projects include: handwashing promotion, menstrual health management (MHM), media messaging strategies, general promotion or sensitization, community health worker activities, and non-food item distributions, like hygiene kits or soap distributions.
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Impact of different promotional channels on handwashing behaviour in an emergency context: Haiti post-earthquake public health promotions and cholera response

In a disaster context, where risk for diarrhoeal disease is elevated, personal hygiene, i.e. handwashing with soap, is especially relevant. However, to date, the promotion of hygiene in an emergency context has not been adequately addressed in the literature.

Publication year: 2013    Reporting Agency: Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology    Author(s): Contzen_N., Mosler_H.

Hygiene promotion: determining what works

For people affected by disaster, whether wars, earthquakes, or disease epidemics, conditions of life can change suddenly and in ways that require rapid adjustments.

Publication year: 2012    Reporting Agency: Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Oxfam    Author(s): Contzen_N., Mosler_H.