Public Health Policy and Society

Public Health Policy and Society
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Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Main context................................................................................................................................................3
Description of the policy..........................................................................................................................3
The issue of the health policy..................................................................................................................5
Importance of the health policy..............................................................................................................6
Implementation of the policy..................................................................................................................8
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................9
References.................................................................................................................................................10
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Introduction
Sanitation and hygiene are considered to very critical for health, development, and survival. It
has been found that most of the countries are facing challenges in providing appropriate
sanitation to their entire population. The risk of hygiene, sanitation, and water-related diseases
has been increased in many countries. According to a survey almost 2.4 billion people
throughout the world are struggling in having basic sanitation which is almost 32% of the entire
population of the world. Basic sanitation can be described as getting access to enabling the safe
disposal of human waste (Adams, 2009). Also, hygienic conditions need to be maintained by
following services like a collection of garbage, management of industrial or hazardous waste and
disposal of wastewater and treatment. Sanitation is considered to be the effective tools and
actions that help in keeping the environment healthy. There are few things that can be included
in it like, toilets or latrines management tools for managing waste, preparation of food, washing
stations, effective draining, and another mechanism. Hygiene is about setting a personal practice
that helps in contributing good health and that includes cutting nails/hairs and bathing and
washing hands. The single most important activity is hand-washing and that can help in
preventing disease. The different terms of sanitation and hygiene can be different things to
different people. Usually, sanitation refers to the management of human excreta, while the term
hygiene refers to the measures/behaviours, including but beyond the management faeces. It is
being used for breaching the chain of contamination transmission in the community and home. It
is thinking of most of the people that hygiene means hand washing, that is correct but it is not
limited to hand washing only. Hygiene and sanitation are related and both effective tools and
effective behaviours need to be taught to people for protecting their health (Angelakis, 2014).
Main context
Description of the policy
The health policy which is going to be implemented is hygiene and sanitation policy. The policy
will help to address issues such as spread of infection and communicable disease
(Beyene&Hailu, 2013). There are some important points on which the policy is being developed
are tidiness, cleanliness, a factor of hygiene, proper disposal of human urine and faeces and some
other. Hygiene and sanitation policy is considered to be very important for the society and at the
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same time, it is also useful for all people in general as it provides them with the accurate
approach for fighting with such disease like HIV, respiratory infection, cholera, and others. The
primary base is being provided by the hygiene and sanitation policy for general people to fight
with a different type of spreadable disease and also helps in preventing the spread of
communicable diseases (Macdonald, 2005). The policy will help in recognizing the hygiene and
health behavior and practice can also be started with individuals. Implementation of Sanitation
and hygiene policy will ensure food safety, hygiene, use of safe drinking water, improved
housing, and waste management. It can also help in encouraging communities to take
accountability for improving the sanitary condition of their instant environment. All individual
must be able to live with dignity within an environment of sanitary and hygiene as a basic human
right. Sanitation and hygiene policy ensure that all communities and households understand their
health and human environment (Biswal, 2015).
This policy also adopts practices and attitudes that sustain and creates such an environment.
Everyone is aware that it is a need for an improved environment of hygiene and sanitation to the
society but the available recourses are limited. Sanitation and hygiene policy also focus on
mobilizing all available resources -individual and community, private and public -searching
healthy environment for all. It is important to provide a sanitary and hygiene environment to all
individuals that contain the quality of life with dignity (Boylan, 2008). The purpose of Sanitation
and hygiene policy is to create an environment in which all individuals will be motivated for
improving environmental sanitation and hygienic behaviours. It has been found that most of the
people visit hospitals because of preventable diseases. Most of these illnesses are related to
sanitation and hygiene. This policy not only helps in improving health but also generates
considerable socio-economic benefit in regards to a better living environment and also focus on
the dignity of citizens, mainly children, and woman. The policy can help in making households
aware with their informed choices about sanitation technology as there is a requirement of a
provision for healthier information about alternative technology and corresponding management
requirements of them and costs. Sanitation and hygiene policy focus on protecting human health
by providing health environment so that the transmission of diseases can be stopped. Sanitation
has become a key for environment protection. The purpose of the policy is to make people aware
of the risk associated with sanitation and hygiene. The policy also focuses on providing
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