why we need to scale up hygiene - global handwashing
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Why we need to scale up hygieneKatie Greenland, LSHTM
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Why does hygiene matter?
AfricaSan Conference
Wed 27th May
Improving health worldwide
www.lshtm.ac.uk
Katie GreenlandEnvironmental Heath Group
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Disposal of Human Faeces
Water & Personal Hygiene
Use & Protection of
Water SourcesFood Hygiene
Domestic & Environmental
Hygiene
from Actions Speak, Edited by M Boot & S Cairncross, 1993
What is hygiene?
• Water hygiene in home• Personal hygiene• Personal hygiene during natural events
Five domains
of hygiene
behaviour
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Why handwashing?
Liu et al., 2014; Freeman et al., 2014; Rabie & Curtis + Luby & Sandora, 2005
1.5 million child deaths from diarrhoea and pneumonia in 2013
RR -23%
RR -40%
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Health impacts:
• Diarrhoea (including cholera)
• Respiratory infections
• Neonatal infections
• Health-care associated infections
• Puerperal sepsis / infections (maternal morbidity & mortality)
• Co-infections among PLWHA
Other impacts:
• Under-nutrition
• Child growth & development
• Deemed a very cost effective intervention (WHO)
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Where is handwashing important?
Households
Health care settings
Schools
Water & sanitation infrastructure and its active management is needed for all three hygiene issues
Post-2015 targets: universal adequate and equitable
handwashing (and MHM)
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When is handwashing important?
Luby, PLOS Med, 2011
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What about in a health care setting?
Source: WHO – My Five Moments for Hand Hygiene
WHO – My Five Moments for Hand Hygiene
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Why do we (still) need to intervene?
14%
49%
16%
44%
17%
13%
Global prevalence = 19%
• WASH facilities in health centres are poor....
• Hands are rarely washed after defecation....
Freeman, TMIH, 2014 Bartram et al, WHO Bulletin, 2015
66,000 facilities in 54 countries:• No water = 38%• No soap = 35%• No latrine = 19%
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Behavior at recommended
times
Proxies of handwashing behavior
How can we measure what we do?
Self-report
Hand microbiology
Structured observation
Observed hand
cleanliness
Handwashing demonstratio
n
Soap consumption
Accelerometer-embedded
soap
Presence of soap
anywhere in the home
Soap and water at a
handwashing place
Use of cleansing agent
Presence of soap
anywhere in the home
Soap and water at a
handwashing place
Video observation
Slide credit: Layla McCay
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Poorest Second Middle Fourth Richest
Percentage of households observed to have soap for handwashing anywhere in the dwelling, by wealth quintile, MICS, 2009-2013, Africa and the Middle East
Variations in prevalence by wealth
quintile - household
Slide credit: Layla McCay
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Improving measurement
• How well does presence of soap correlate with handwashing?
• Triangulate with:• Knowledge assessment?
• Observation data?
• Correlation issues?
• Measuring sustained changes?
Biran et al 2008, Luby et al 2011, Ram et al (various)
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Improving our interventions
Achieving sustained behaviour change on a large scale is difficult
We need:
• formative research to better understand the drivers of behaviour in each setting
• to continue to develop and rigorously test innovative interventions that are grounded in theory
• to contribute to the evidence-base about what works by channeling what we learn back into the design process
• to improve systems to support service delivery
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