Effect of handwashing on child health: a randomised controlled trial.

By S. Luby, M. Agboatwalla, D. Feikin, J. Painter, W. Billhimer, A. Altaf, R. M. Hoekstra. The Lancet, 2005

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Subfields: Emergency Medical Services, Nutrition and Dietetics, Speech and Hearing

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• Community health workers in low-, middle-, and high-income countries: an overview of their history, recent evolution, and current effectiveness. (2014, background): “An RCT in which CHWs made routine weekly visits to all households to promote hand washing in an urban slum in Karachi, Pakistan, led to a 53% reduction in the incidence of childhood diarrhea and a 50% reduction in the incidence of childhood pneumonia (73, 74).”
• Guidelines for Preventing Infectious Complications among Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipients: A Global Perspective (2009, background): “When close contact is unavoidable, both the HCT recipient and the symptomatic contact should be encouraged to disinfect their hands frequently, as this has been shown to reduce the transmission of respiratory and other illnesses [710-713].”
• Comparative studies and microbial risk assessment of different water samples used for processing frozen sea- foods in Ijora-olopa, Lagos State, Nigeria (2008, background): “…in Africa (Peterson et al., 1998) and urban slums in Asia (Luby et al., 2005) have reported that hand-washing with soap reduced the prevalence of diarrhea in all age groups (Peterson et al., 1998) and lowered the incidence of diarrhea and pneumonia in children 5 years of age (Luby et al., 2005).”
• Effect of hand hygiene on infectious disease risk in the community setting: a meta-analysis. (2008, methodology): “The same study examined the influence of using antibacterial soap with hand-hygiene education on respiratory illness rates compared with no intervention in a control group, and the RR for this was close to that of using nonantibacterial soap with education.(45) The pooled estimate from 4 studies in ”
• Setting Priorities, Targeting Subsidies among Water, Sanitation, and Preventive Health Interventions in Developing Countries (2012, background): “We consider only reductions in diarrheal disease, though there is evidence that HWS may also reduce pneumonia (Luby et al., 2005).”