School sanitation and student health status: a literature review

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Title: School sanitation and student health status: a literature review
Authors: Anita D. Moelyaningrum, Soedjajadi Keman, Hari B. Notobroto, Soenarnatalina Melaniani, Lilis Sulistyorini, Ferry Efendi
Source: Journal of Public Health in Africa, Vol 14, Iss 2 (2023)
Publisher Information: AOSIS, 2023.
Publication Year: 2023
Collection: LCC:Public aspects of medicine
Subject Terms: health status, school sanitation, students, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270
More Details: Introduction: UNESCO 2019 said that Indonesia’s education has ranked 54 to 120 countries. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) contain goals 4, target 4a, indicator 4.a.1. Quality education can be achieved with basic drinking water during school hours, basic sanitation facilities, and basic handwashing facilities. School sanitation is covered at targets 3, 4, and 6 of SDGs. The objective of this review is to identify school sanitation, determination of disease, and students’ health status-related school sanitation. Materials and Methods: This research was based primarily on a literature review. Boolean technic was used to define the keywords. The database used for the searching within these documents were School Sanitation, Health, and Students. Data were found from search engines PubMed, Science Direct, Springer, and Google scholar. The literature review of this search was done by the publication range 2019-2022. The search data were conducted on 8 October 2022, which Acquired 7 articles that meet predefined criteria. Results and Discussions: Schools’ sanitation was identified in water supply, drinking water supply, rest room, sanitary facilities, toilet/ latrine, hand washing facilities, cleaning policy, clean and functional toilet, Water Sanitation and Hygiene Programs, and the knowledge of sanitation. The effect of health-related school sanitation was gastrointestinal illness, diarrhea, cholera, dehydration, cavities in teeth, undernutrition, stunting, soil-transmitted helminths, intestinal parasitic infection, toothache, decay missing, filled permanent teeth status, and health status of students. Conclusions: School sanitation affected the student health status, absenteeism at school, and students’ concentration. Sanitation facilities are suggested to include laws and policies.
Document Type: article
File Description: electronic resource
Language: English
ISSN: 2038-9922
2038-9930
Relation: https://publichealthinafrica.org/index.php/jphia/article/view/304; https://doaj.org/toc/2038-9922; https://doaj.org/toc/2038-9930
DOI: 10.4081/jphia.2023.2540
Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/c74e31beb964420fb196d16d056088f3
Accession Number: edsdoj.74e31beb964420fb196d16d056088f3
Database: Directory of Open Access Journals
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ISSN:20389922
20389930
DOI:10.4081/jphia.2023.2540
Published in:Journal of Public Health in Africa
Language:English