Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) - World Health Organization (WHO) WHO develops, updates and disseminates health-based guidance documents and best practice guides, norms and standards that support standard-setting and regulations at national level, particularly for drinking-water safety, effective surveillance approaches, recreational water quality, sanitation safety, safe wastewater use, WASH in health and educational facilities, and WASH monitoring
Guidance on WASH and health - World Health Organization (WHO) Safe WASH are not only a prerequisite to health, but contribute to livelihoods, school attendance and dignity and help to create resilient communities living in healthy environments Inadequate or unsafe WASH may cause disease through a range of interrelated transmission pathways, which include among others:
Water Sanitation and Health - World Health Organization (WHO) Safe drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene are crucial to human health and well-being Safe WASH is not only a prerequisite to health, but contributes to livelihoods, school attendance and dignity and helps to create resilient communities living in healthy environments
Estimating WASH-related burden of disease - World Health Organization (WHO) Unsafe WASH is linked to many diseases and risks including infections, non-communicable diseases from exposures to contaminants in drinking-water and adverse impacts on well-being WHO quantifies the burden of disease associated with poor WASH, works with scientists to obtain the most rigorous and relevant evidence on WASH and health; provide normative guidance based on a comprehensive health
Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) - India Safe WASH is not only a prerequisite to health, but contributes to livelihoods, school attendance and dignity and helps to create resilient communities living in healthy environments Drinking unsafe water impairs health through illnesses such as diarrhoea, and untreated excreta contaminates groundwaters and surface waters used for drinking
WASH (Water, Sanitation Hygiene) and COVID-19 - World Bank Group WASH Interventions for An Effective COVID-19 Pandemic Response To respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Bank Water Global Practice has developed a menu of solutions, including concrete actions to help our client governments in their preparedness and emergency response, and future resilience to similar epidemics
Sanitation - World Health Organization (WHO) Technical brief on water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) and wastewater management to prevent infections and reduce; Guidelines for the safe use of wastewater, excreta and greywater; Guidelines for safe recreational water environments; WASH and health working together: a how-to guide for Neglected Tropical Disease programmes
Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) - World Health Organization (WHO) Safe WASH is not only a prerequisite to health, but contributes to livelihoods, school attendance and dignity and helps to create resilient communities living in healthy environments Drinking unsafe water impairs health through illnesses such as diarrhoea, and untreated excreta contaminates groundwaters and surface waters used for drinking
Improving access to water, sanitation and hygiene can save 1. 4 million . . . Half of the world’s population still does not have adequate access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) which could have prevented at least 1 4 million deaths and 74 million disability-adjusted life years in 2019, according to the latest report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and an accompanying article published in The Lancet “With growing WASH-related health
Water Sanitation and Health - World Health Organization (WHO) The 2017 report was the first of the Sustainable Development Goal period and established baseline estimates for monitoring the new Sustainable Development Goal targets This was followed by progress reports for WASH in households in 2019, 2021 and 2023 The JMP also produces progress reports about WASH in health care facilities and WASH in schools