This document discusses proper toilet sanitation and hygiene practices. It defines toilet sanitation and outlines its importance for public health. Five objectives are provided: defining toilet sanitation; using toilets properly; practicing hand washing; understanding basic toilet hygiene; and toilet management guidelines. Guidelines are given for proper toilet use, hand washing as a family activity, basic hygiene practices, and toilet management. The summary emphasizes that access to proper sanitation reduces disease, but many lack these facilities; and that following hygiene guidelines prevents illness.

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2. Objectives
We should be able to;
1. Define Toilet Sanitation
2. Use Proper Toilet
3. Practice Hand Washing Activity
4. Know Basic Hygiene Practice in Toilet
5. Toilet Management Guidance
Global access to safe water, adequate sanitation, and proper hygiene
education can reduce illness and death from disease, leading to improved
health, poverty reduction, and socio-economic development. However,
many countries are challenged to provide these basic necessities to their
populations, leaving people at risk for water, sanitation, and hygiene or
hand wash-related diseases. (CDC, Healthy Water)
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3. Introduction
From observation in clinical placement at town clinic, I notice that many
cases were related to diarrhea and found out that it was caused by –poor
toilet hygiene sanitation. Therefore, there is a dire need of health education
in order to minimize illnesses spreading from toilet.
Gardener state “Health policies at the turn of this century were concerned
with providing sufficient hospitals, reducing the epidemics of infectious
diseases, and providing hygiene education” (pp. 91)
Health Promotion is “ The process of enabling people to increase control
over, and to improve their health. It moves beyond a focus on individuals
behavior towards a wide range of social and environment interventions/
prevent undesirable environment.” (WHO).
Thus, Toilet Sanitation by definition is the study and maintenance of public
health and hygiene, especially the disposal of waste in an appropriate way
(2009. Microsoft Encarta). It measures to protect public health through
proper solid waste disposal and cleanliness during food processing and
preparation.
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4. Using Proper Toilet
 Proper sanitation facilities like toilets promotes health because they allow people to
dispose of their waste appropriately.
Inform others not to use river and using outside house or bushes as their toilets. Global
Health stated that “Open defecation, where people have no choice but to go outside,
contributes to fecal contamination of the environment which is one of the main causes
of diarrhea, which result in the death of more than 800,000 children under age of 5
years” Disposing of waste outside may look unhealthy and lead to spreading of disease
like diarrhea, dysentery, typhoid and chlorea.
Absence of proper toilet facilities can:
Result in unhealthy environment contaminated by human waste. Hence improper waste
disposal can contaminate a land and water, spreading infection. (CDC. Toilets. 2015)a
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5. Hand Washing: A Family Activity
How will you use a proper toilet? Hygiene teaching is essential in your family, school and out in the field.
 Parents, teachers, clinician, and health educators can help keep their families healthy
through informative and passive communication by:
Teaching them good
handwashing technique.
 Reminding your kids to wash their hands
Washing your hands with your kids
Handwashing education in the community can reduce
spreading of illness and save more time and money.
(CDC. Handwashing, 2012).
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6. Basic Hygiene Practice in Toilet
Do practice these basic hygiene practice in your daily life and give good health
education in family, community and in school so that everyone know how to use
toilet.
Wash hands with soap and water immediately after toilet.
Wash your hands with soap and water before eating or drinking.
Avoid touching face, mouth, eyes, nose, or open sores and cuts
when handling human feces or after toilet.
Wear thongs or shoes when going to loo.
Wear waterproof gloves, face mask, goggles, and rubber boots
before washing toilet. (CDC. Handling Waste. 2015)b
These basic hygiene practice can help prevent illnesses in your
families, communities and even provincial and national level thus
leading to healthy lifestyle. As a result it brings healthy environment.
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7. Guidelines for Toilet Management
• Toilets must be dug 10 meters away from house preventing flies coming into
your house.
• Keep toilet clean and always close the bowl/hole after using it.
Provide essential things to be use in the loo
like tissue, soap, water and bin.
Educate your visitors on toilet hygiene.
Through guidelines can help prevent vectors spreading
of disease in our families and outside. Spreading
of disease takes no time but getting treatment takes time.
Be wise and make health your own business by creating a disease free environment.
Guidelines through health education can bring us healthy lifestyle. Toilet hygiene practices
and management can help reduce illness related to toilet, handwashing hygiene, water/river,
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8. Summary
• This simple toilet has a huge impact on safety, health and education globally through separating
human waste from human contact in a hygienic way. Examples like pit, flush toilets, composting
toilets and toilets connected to sewers or septic tanks. Through innovation and education, the
gap between safe toilets and unhealthy living conditions can bridge.
• What happens when there is no place to go? The result is an unhealthy environment
contaminated by human waste. This in turn, can contaminate a community’s land water which
increases the risk of disease.
• Toilet sanitation creates supportive environment and enhance self-help and poverty reduction
leading to socio-economic development through basic toilet hygiene practices, management
guidelines and a family activity.
Take Home Message
• So what will be the resolution to encourage behavioral change and implement policies to increase
access to proper toilet sanitation in our lives and out in the field?
 The resolution also calls for an end to open-air defecation, as it is harmful to public health
through health education.
• Remember Health is everyone’s Business and should apply in your daily lives. It
cannot be left unto those who are under health profession.
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9. Reference
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2012). Handwashing. Retrieved May 5, 2012 from
https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/hygiene/hand/handwashing-family.html
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2015)a. Toilets. Retrieved December 17, 2015 from
https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/global/sanitation/toilets.html
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2015)b. Handling Waste. Retrieved December 17,
2015 from https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/global/sanitation/workers_handlingwaste.html
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2012).
“Sanitation.” Microsoft® Encarta® 2009 [DVD], WA Microsoft Cooperation, 2008.
Gardener, H. (1992). Health policy development implementation and evaluation in Australia (1st
ed.) (pp. 91). Melbourne.: La Trobe University.
Health Promotion. (2017). Retrieved February 23, 2017 from http://www.who.int/topics/health
promotion/en/
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2015). Global Health. Retrieved November 19,
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• Prepared by Philipai Philip Nagah Health Extension Student Year 2 @
Divine Word University, 2017