- Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) - World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO develops, updates and disseminates health-based guidance documents and best practice guides, norms and standards that support standard-setting and regulations at national level, particularly for drinking-water safety, effective surveillance approaches, recreational water quality, sanitation safety, safe wastewater use, WASH in health and educational facilities, and WASH monitoring
- Water Sanitation and Health - World Health Organization (WHO)
Safe drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene are crucial to human health and well-being Safe WASH is not only a prerequisite to health, but contributes to livelihoods, school attendance and dignity and helps to create resilient communities living in healthy environments
- Guidance on WASH and health - World Health Organization (WHO)
Safe WASH are not only a prerequisite to health, but contribute to livelihoods, school attendance and dignity and help to create resilient communities living in healthy environments Inadequate or unsafe WASH may cause disease through a range of interrelated transmission pathways, which include among others:
- Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) - India
Safe WASH is not only a prerequisite to health, but contributes to livelihoods, school attendance and dignity and helps to create resilient communities living in healthy environments Drinking unsafe water impairs health through illnesses such as diarrhoea, and untreated excreta contaminates groundwaters and surface waters used for drinking
- Estimating WASH-related burden of disease - World Health Organization (WHO)
Unsafe WASH is linked to many diseases and risks including infections, non-communicable diseases from exposures to contaminants in drinking-water and adverse impacts on well-being WHO quantifies the burden of disease associated with poor WASH, works with scientists to obtain the most rigorous and relevant evidence on WASH and health; provide normative guidance based on a comprehensive health
- Water, sanitation, hygiene and health: A primer for health professionals
Poor WASH services also weaken health systems, threaten health security and place a heavy strain on economies This primer aims to guide health professionals on engaging with WASH-related issues It gives an overview of WASH interventions and the status of WASH services globally and outlines key linkages with health
- Sanitation - World Health Organization (WHO)
Technical brief on water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) and wastewater management to prevent infections and reduce; Guidelines for the safe use of wastewater, excreta and greywater; Guidelines for safe recreational water environments; WASH and health working together: a how-to guide for Neglected Tropical Disease programmes
- WHO Global water, sanitation and hygiene: Annual report 2021
This report summarizes the World Health Organization’s (WHO) global work on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) during 2021 It describes how the Organization continued to deliver its essential WASH programming as elaborated in its 2018–2025 strategy, as well as WHO’s continuing WASH response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
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