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Hygiene and sanitation behaviour change (De Buck, 2017)

ID: 
UWSR020
Full title: 
Promoting handwashing and sanitation behaviour change in low- and middle-income countries: A mixed-method systematic review
Author(s): 
De Buck et al.
Publication date: 
Sunday, January 1, 2017
Maps: 
Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Evidence Gap Map: 2020 update
Confidence Level: 
High
Number of Impact Evaluations : 
70
Regions: 
East Asia and Pacific
Latin America and the Caribbean
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa
Population: 
Rural
Urban
Slum (informal settlement)
Interventions: 
Health messaging
Directive psychosocial triggering (e.g. social marketing)
Participatory psychosocial triggering (e.g. CLTS)
Psychosocial triggering with systems-based approaches
Outcomes: 
Construction, use, and maintenance of latrines
Open defecation
Hygiene behaviour
Sustainability/slippage
Diarrhoeal disease
Acute respiratory infections
Mortality
Type of technology: 
Sanitation: latrines for household use
Hygiene: improved handwashing practices
Combined water supply and sanitation (WSS)
Combined hygiene with water and/or sanitation

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