The effect of handwashing at recommended times with water alone and with soap on child diarrhea in rural Bangladesh: an observational study.

BACKGROUND: Standard public health interventions to improve hand hygiene in communities with high levels of child mortality encourage community residents to wash their hands with soap at five separate key times, a recommendation that would require mothers living in impoverished households to typical...

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Main Authors: Stephen P Luby, Amal K Halder, Tarique Huda, Leanne Unicomb, Richard B Johnston
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-06-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3125291?pdf=render