A 3 years pilot study from 1997 to 2000 on the effectiveness of enviromental sanitation and public health education at Quynh Hung commune, Quynh Phu district and Dong Hop commune, Dong Hung district, Thai Binh province showed that: accurate awareness of the people has been improved through the intervention of enviromental sanitation and public health education including no use of fresh dung (70.4%), germ carrying fresh dung (61.2%), proper sanitary tollet (47.9%), the causes of digestive infection were dirty water (68.2%), use of untreated fresh dung (48.5%) and fly 39%. The rate of helminthic egg infection was reduced from 6.4% to 10.6%.
Hygiene ; Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic ; Infection