Hygiene Awareness; Improving School Attendance and Participation in Kenya
| Autor: | Susan T. Njau |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Health (social science)
Sanitation media_common.quotation_subject 030231 tropical medicine Medicine (miscellaneous) Health Professions (miscellaneous) Somali 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Nursing Hygiene Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Socioeconomics media_common Psychomotor learning biology Holistic education business.industry Health Policy Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health biology.organism_classification language.human_language Tanzania Well-being language business School attendance |
| Zdroj: | Universal Journal of Public Health. 4:60-69 |
| ISSN: | 2331-8945 2331-8880 |
| DOI: | 10.13189/ujph.2016.040203 |
| Popis: | Prevention of illness amongst school going children is crucial in enabling access and participation in learning. Educational achievements can be linked to healthy behavior, a healthy body and a healthy living environment. There is need to ensure that schools maintain good hygiene in order for the learners to be able to be in school and continue to learn. Quality education entails that children have a holistic learning which includes the emotional, physical psychomotor as well as the academic aspects. Learners should be made to be responsible for their well being both in school and while out of school. It is therefore expected that the school administration, the parents and the community should strive to maintain good hygiene. Schools should put in place measures such as school sanatorium, adequate and appropriate sanitation facilities, provision of clean safe water to ensure that students are in good health. Kenya is a country found in the eastern part of Africa and borders the Indian Ocean to the South East, Somali to the north east, Ethiopia and south Sudan to the northwest, Uganda to the west and Tanzania to the south. The climate in Kenya varies from tropical along the coast to temperate in the interior and arid in the north and north east parts of the |
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