sanitation

Examples of sanitation in the following topics:

• Survival Needs

  • To sustain human life, certain physiological needs include air, water, food, shelter, sanitation, touch, sleep and personal space.
  • These are: air, water, food, shelter, sanitation, sleep, space, and touch.
  • Sanitation: Proper means for the removal of human waste helps protect from deadly toxins and pathogens and is critical in promoting human survival.

• Control of Nosocomial Infections

  • Hospitals have sanitation protocols regarding uniforms, equipment sterilization, washing, and other preventive measures.
  • Hospitals have sanitation protocols regarding uniforms, equipment sterilization, washing, and other preventive measures.
  • Despite sanitation protocol, patients cannot be entirely isolated from infectious agents.
  • Sterilization goes further than just sanitizing.
  • Modern sanitizing methods such as NAV-CO2 have been effective against gastroenteritis, MRSA, and influenza agents.

• Cholera

  • The diarrhea carries new generations of V. cholerae bacteria out into the drinking water of the next host if proper sanitation measures are not in place.
  • Although cholera may be life-threatening, prevention of the disease is normally straightforward if proper sanitation practices are followed.
  • In developed countries, due to nearly universal advanced water treatment and sanitation practices, cholera is no longer a major health threat.
  • Effective sanitation practices, if instituted and adhered to in time, are usually sufficient to stop an epidemic.
  • All materials that come in contact with cholera patients should be sanitized by washing in hot water, using chlorine bleach if possible.

• Compromised Host

  • Hospitals have sanitation protocols regarding uniforms, equipment sterilization, washing, and other preventive measures.
  • Despite sanitation protocol, patients cannot be entirely isolated from infectious agents.

• Frances Willard and the Women's Christian Temperance Union

  • Her vision progressed to include federal aid to education, free school lunches, unions for workers, the eight-hour work day, work relief for the poor, municipal sanitation and boards of health, national transportation, strong anti-rape laws, and protections against child abuse.
  • The WCTU was very interested in a number of social reform issues, including labor, prostitution, public health, sanitation, and international peace.

• Industrial Cities

  • In the 19th century, health conditions improved with better sanitation, but urban people, especially small children, continued to die from diseases spreading through the cramped living conditions.

• Schistosomiasis

  • Schistosomiasis is common in countries that lack the facilities to maintain proper water supplies and sanitation facilities.

• The Rise of the City

  • Cities responded by paving streets, digging sewers, sanitizing water, constructing housing, and creating public transportation systems.

• The Demographic Transition

  • The beginning of the demographic transition in a society is indicated when death rates drop without a corresponding fall in birth rates (usually the result of improved sanitation and advances in healthcare).

• Typhoid Fever

  • The impact of this disease fell sharply with the improved sanitation techniques of the 20th century.
  • The bacteria which cause typhoid fever may be spread through poor hygiene habits and public sanitation conditions and, sometimes, also by flying insects feeding on infected feces.