Assessing Public Health Needs in a Lower Middle Income Country

"This book demonstrates a methodology for assessing public health needs in communities experiencing environmental sanitation inadequacies. Centring on a case study of the Republic of Cameroon, the findings represent the starting point of a campaign to implement a comprehensive water and sanitat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ruel-Bergeron, Sarah
Otros Autores: Patel, Jimi, Burch, Charlotte, Kazi, Riksum
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Milton : CRC Press LLC, 2020.
Colección:Routledge Focus on Environmental Health Ser.
Temas:
Public health > Environmental aspects.
Public health > Methodology.
Sanitation.
Public health.
Public Health
Environment
Sanitation
Santé publique > Aspect de l'environnement.
Salubrité publique.
Santé publique.
public health.
Public health
Public health > Environmental aspects
Public health > Methodology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Author's note
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Letter from Joan Walley
  • Acknowledgements
  • Acronyms and abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • A brief history of Idenau, Cameroon
  • 1 Background
  • The community
  • The challenges
  • The priority areas
  • 2 Data collection methodology
  • The needs assessment objectives
  • Methodology
  • 3 Literature review
  • Access to safe drinking water
  • Open defecation and lack of WASH infrastructure
  • Community-led total sanitation
  • Lack of domestic waste management
  • Lack of non-domestic waste management
  • 4 Quantitative data analysis results
  • Current demographics
  • Access to safe water
  • Sanitation and waste management
  • Health and hygiene
  • 5 Qualitative data analysis results
  • Access to safe water
  • Waste management
  • Sanitation and hygiene behaviours
  • 6 Discussion
  • 7 The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
  • The United Nations 2030 agenda for sustainable development
  • Cameroon
  • the 2019 SDG Index score and rank
  • Government action, 2010-2020
  • Cameroon's progress in the implementation of the SDGs
  • 8 Actionable recommendations
  • Pilot phase
  • estimated timeline 12 months
  • Potential barriers to implementation
  • Phase I
  • estimated timeline 24 months
  • Potential barriers to implementation
  • Phase II
  • estimated timeline 36+ months
  • Potential barriers to implementation
  • 9 Opportunities and barriers in implementation
  • Opportunities in implementation
  • Barriers in implementation
  • Funding strategies
  • Conclusion
  • Appendices
  • Appendix I Letter from Rapheal Muma, Idenau municipality
  • Appendix II Needs assessment survey
  • Appendix III Community discussion questions
  • Appendix IV Consent form for community discussion
  • Index

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