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Carolien van der Voorden, senior programme officer – Global Sanitation Fund, WSSCC, Geneva, Switzerland, @WatSanCollabCou Carolien oversees WSSCC's knowledge work on sanitation and hygiene behaviour change, and coordinates the GSF's work on learning and documentation.
Although the department spent £698m from 2010 to 2014 on clean water, toilets, handwashing facilities and programmes to encourage better hygiene behaviour, it does not routinely collect impact data.
Today, disgust is crucial in our everyday interactions in the form of manners, said Dr Curtis, who has conducted research into hygiene behaviour in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, China, India, Uganda, Vietnam, Indonesia and Kyrgyzstan.
The taskforce was asked to explore aspects underlying hand hygiene behaviour that may influence its promotion among healthcare workers.
Psychosocial correlates of oral hygiene behaviour in people aged 9 to 19 - a systematic review with meta-analysis.
For sustainable control, it has been suggested that improvements in water, sanitation and hygiene behaviour are required.
The interviews also identified that there is a belief that just some patients are identifiably 'infectious' and that hand hygiene behaviour could be altered as a result.
The finding that hygiene behaviour persisted for years implies that hygiene promotion is a more cost-effective health intervention than previously supposed.
While the techniques involved in hand hygiene are simple, the complex interdependence of factors which determine hand hygiene behaviour makes the study of hand hygiene complex.
The sustainability of changed hygiene behaviour was studied at various periods up to nine years after the conclusion of a multifaceted hygiene promotion intervention in Kerala, India.
