Effectiveness of Improvement of Latrines on Disease Prevention in Countryside
- VernacularTitle:农村改厕与卫生防病效果分析
- Author:
Yuqin PAN
;
Meixia ZHANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Improvement of latrine;
Non-hazardous treatment;
Intestinal infectious disease;
Parasitosis
- From:
Journal of Environment and Health
1993;0(03):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
ve To explore the effectiveness of non-hazardous treatment of excreta on control of intestinal infectious diseases and parasitosis. Methods The popularization rate of sanitary latrines, the non-hazardous treatment rate of excreta, the prevalance rate of B-class intestinal infectious diseases and infectious rate of worm eggs were sta-tistically analyzed. Results With the increasing popularization rate of sanitary latrine and the non-hazardous treat-ment rate of excreta, the prevalance rates of 3 kinds of intestinal infectious diseases (dysentery, typhoid and hepatitis) decreased from 175.14/100 000 in 1991 to 57.78/100 000 in 2 000 namely decreased 67.01% . The infectious rates of helminth eggs decreased from 76.88% in 1991 to 22.16% in 2000 namely decreased 71.17%. Conclusion Non-hazardous treatment of excreta presented obvious effectiveness on disease prevention, which should be widely popularized in countryside.
