2021
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph182111064
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Contextual Determinants of General Household Hygiene Conditions in Rural Indonesia

Abstract: Household hygiene is critical to prevent pathogen transmission at the household level. Assessing household hygiene conditions and their determinants are needed to improve hygiene conditions, especially in rural and less developed areas where the housing conditions are relatively worse than they are in urban areas. This study used data from 278 household interviews and observations in rural areas in the district of East Sumba, province East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. The data were analyzed using statistical meth… Show more

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“…PCA also was used to create the wealth index scores from the household's assets and conditions, e.g., household ownership of TV, fridge, motorbike, conditions of house wall, floor, etc. The higher the first PCA component scores, the wealthier the respondent is 30,31 .…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…PCA also was used to create the wealth index scores from the household's assets and conditions, e.g., household ownership of TV, fridge, motorbike, conditions of house wall, floor, etc. The higher the first PCA component scores, the wealthier the respondent is 30,31 .…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…To provide piped water system in small scale area collaboration with private sector or communities, was an alternative in order to meet drinking water access, especially for rural areas. Study in Sumba, a region in east Indonesia who regularly face water scarcity 7-8 months a year, indicate that poor households should be the main target group of WASH interventions (Daniel, 2021). In vulnerable communities in the Mekong Region, need combination of shorter-term and longer-term measures addressing water access, supply, and quality difficulties to improve provisioning of clean water in normal times, as well as during epidemics (Lebel et al, 2022).…”
Section: Health Impact Issue and Policy Implicationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, the problem associated with this practice is the way they withdraw water, i.e., dipping of mugs, which largely cross contaminate the water. Moreover, rural communities may not have access to detergents to wash water storage containers due to poor socioeconomic status [23][24][25] that makes the storage containers unsafe.…”
Section: Household Water Treatmentmentioning
confidence: 99%