Environmental sanitation – This book covers the entire syllabus of “Neuron Community Health Nursing” prescribed by the Universities of Bangladesh- for Basic and diploma nursing students. We tried to accommodate latest information and topics.
This book is examination friendly setup according to the teachers’ lectures and examination’s questions. At the end of the book previous university questions are given. We hope in touch with the book students’ knowledge will be upgraded and flourished. The unique way of presentation may make your reading of the book a pleasurable experience.
Environmental sanitation
Sanitation
Dictionary meaning of the word sanitation: ‘the science of safeguarding health. The national sanitation foundation of the USA has been defined sanitation as, a way of life, the quality of living that is expressed in the clean home, the clean farm, the clean business, the clean neighborhood and the clean community. Being a way of life, it must come from within the people, it is nourished by knowledge and grows as an obligation and an ideal in human relations.’
Environmental sanitation
The term ‘environmental sanitation’ has been defined by WHO as “The control of all those factors in man’s physical environment which exercise or may exercise a deleterious effect on his physical development, health and survival.”
Importance of environmental sanitation
1. Much of the ill-health in Bangladesh is due to poor environmental sanitation, i.e., unsafe water, polluted soil, unhygienic disposal of human excreta and refuse, poor housing, insects and rodents.
2. High infant mortality rate, sickness rate and poor standards of health are largely due to poor environmental sanitation. Improvement of environmental sanitation is therefore crucial for the prevention of disease and promotion of health of individuals and communities.
Environmental sanitation: Basic needs
✔ Provision of safe and adequate water supply.
✔ Disposal of wastes (refuse and human excreta)
✔ Provision of good housing
✔ Air hygiene
✔ Safeguarding of food
✔ Disinfection
✔ Control of insect vectors and other pests
✔ Control of animal reservoirs of infection
✔ Elimination of hazards of noise, radiation etc.
✔ Control of occupational hazards.
Advantages of environmental sanitation
1. It helps keep clean our world.
2. Protect us from diseases, infections, water borne diseases and pollution.
3. Helps improve our health and living habits.
4. Give us an opportunity to recycle all those waste materials which could be so help save waste of energy and control prices.
5. It improves-cleanliness of our streets, roads, villages and cities.
6. Help reduce soil, air, and water pollution.
7. Enhances the beauty of area, location and generate a sense of grace among the inhabitants.
8. Helps control the quality of certain products, edible items, meat, vegetables and drinking water quality.
9. Many poisons and toxic materials such as lead, mercury, arsenic and asbestos etc are very dangerous and harmful to health. Environmental sanitation can help control these problems and have a good check and balance over their release and dispose.
10. Environmental sanitation is the practice which promotes the desire for living a health life and a life full of color, purpose, goals, enthusiasm and zeal.
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