Health sanitation is an essential development strategy and without it, poor health is the norm in a world that lacks dignity. Simple access to sanitation can improve the well-being, health and productivity. Inadequate sanitation can affect families, individuals as well as communities and even entire countries. However, Ak assainissement even with its significance, making significant improvements in sanitation access has been a struggle. The achievement of the internationally agreed goals for hygiene and sanitation poses an enormous challenge for the world community. It will only be achieved by taking action now. Affordable, effective technologies are readily available. Effective methods for managing programs have been devised. The political will and coordinated actions from all stakeholders will improve conditions for millions in the near future.
Around 40 percent of global population (2.4 billion) is without access to clean, safe and personal hygiene. World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 1.8 million people die every year due to diarrheal illnesses, 200 million are afflicted with schistosomiasis. over 1 billion suffer from soil-transmitted helminthes-related infections. The Special Session of Children of the United Nations General Assembly (2002) revealed that more than 5500 children die each day due to illnesses caused by contaminated water and food because of sanitation and health-related malpractice.
Access to sanitation, and enhancing hygiene are the key to reducing the burden of this disease. Additionally, these changes could increase the number of students attending school especially for girls and aid children in learning to be better educated. They may also have a profound impact on the economics of many nations – both rich and poor , and on women’s empowerment. The majority of these benefits will be a result of developing countries.
The world community has set lofty goals to improve access to sanitation until 2015. The achievement of these targets will have an enormous effect on the daily lives of of thousands of most disadvantaged population and provide the opportunity for further economic growth for tens of thousand of villages. Access to proper sanitation is crossing the most vital hurdle to living with dignity and satisfaction of the most the basic necessities.
The study examined the sanitation and health practices of Grade VI students in selected public schools located in the area of Diadi province of Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines. The research project employed the method of descriptive correlation in research to determine the impact of the variable profile variables on the participants their health habits, sanitation practices, as well as their academic performance and also the connection between sanitation and health practices and academic performance. These are the major results of the study
Twenty-five (or 37.31 percent of respondents are aged 12 and 41 to 61.19 percent are females. 47 percent or 70.14 per cent of them are Roman Catholics; 22 or 32.84 percent are Ilocano 20 , or 20.89 of respondents’ fathers were at the elementary school level and either 21 or 31.34 percentage of mothers are college-educated 50 to 74.63 percentage of the fathers they have are farmer. 38 percent or 56.72 per cent are household keeper. 33 or 50.75 percent of families earn of 5,000.00 or less 38 percent or 56.72 percent have between 4 and six family members 35 and 53.73 percent have two sanitation facilities. In addition, 42 or 62.69 had 5 vaccines.
The school’s health practices received a grand mean for health practices in the school of 3.89; 3.90 for health practices at home; in addition, 3.62 regarding health care practices within the community. All of them were qualitatively described as highly satisfactory. Respondents rated their sanitation practices at the school to be very satisfactory with a grand average of 3.44 Also, they found it very acceptable regarding sanitation practices at home, with 3.55 Also, extremely satisfactory with regards to sanitation practices in the community with a 3.26 Grand mean.
