What is hygiene promotion?
Updated - Monday 03 September 2007
What is hygiene promotion?
Hygiene promotion encourages all the hygienic conditions and behaviours that can contribute towards good health. It aims to stimulate and facilitate the right behaviour changes. Usually, it starts with systematic data collection to find out and understand what different groups of people know about hygiene, what they do, what they want and why this is so. The results are used to set objectives and to identify and implement activities that enable the different groups to measurably reduce risky conditions and practices and to strengthen positive situations and behaviours.
· More about hygiene promotion can be found on: http://www.irc.nl/page/115 or http://www.lboro.ac.uk/well/resources/fact-sheets/fact-sheets-htm/hp.htm
· Criteria to measure the effectiveness of hygiene promotion programmes can be found in chapter four of IRC's TOP on Hygiene Promotion
· Additional definitions are listed in Appendix 3 of the TOP on Hygiene Promotion
