Household-level sanitation in Ethiopia and its influencing factors: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Within the past two decades, Ethiopia has achieved one of the fastest reductions of open defecation worldwide. This change can be attributed to the implementation of a national sanitation strategy that focused on facilitating community demand for latrine adoption and use of basic self-constructed latrines but less on other preconditions of hygienic sanitation. Recognition of sanitation by policymakers also catalyzed primary research in this area. As such, the synthesis of the available evidence is both warranted and possible. In this article, we thus decided to assess available primary evidence on the household-level sanitation in Ethiopia and its influencing factors.

Methods

We searched primary studies that present findings on the role of factors influencing hous

SUBMITTER: Novotny J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9338532 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature