An Assessment of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Access in Bangladesh's Community Health Clinics
Adequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in health care facilities plays a critical role in ensuring improved health care utilization and reducing disease burden due to reinfection. WASH in health facilities is now gaining momentum with the ne...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/540641561662684672/An-Assessment-of-Water-Sanitation-and-Hygiene-Access-in-Bangladeshs-Community-Health-Clinics http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31996 |
| Summary: | Adequate water, sanitation and hygiene
(WASH) in health care facilities plays a critical role in
ensuring improved health care utilization and reducing
disease burden due to reinfection. WASH in health facilities
is now gaining momentum with the new SDG targets that
governments have vowed to meet. This goal calls for a
baseline examination of existing WASH conditions in health
facilities. Using data collected through a census of all
community health clinics in Bangladesh, this paper presents
an analysis of the state of WASH in Bangladesh's rural,
public health facilities highlighting that the lack of
functionality of WASH facilities is a widespread problem
across the country. The paper also identifies priority areas
for action when considering the prevalence of poverty and
chronic undernutrition at the upazilla level. |
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