Global Scaling Up Handwashing Project
Title
Global Scaling Up Handwashing Project
Country
Implementation level
Policy Start
2008
Policy End
2010
Theme
Sub Theme
Specific theme
Handwashing with soap promotion
Lowi Policy Typology
Distributive
Policy Mechanism Category
Advocacy or education
Specific Mechanism
Province- and district-level media campaigns, evaluation creation and monitoring, community activities and policy promotion, handwashing infrastructure construction
Stated objective of policy in publication
Generate and sustain handwashing with soap behavior among mothers, caregivers, and children to reduce the rate of parasitic and microbiological
Target population of policy
Implementation stage
Evaluated
Financing source(s)
Mixed sources
Urban impact
Health outcome
Increase by 100 percent in attentiveness to handwashing technique and soap use
Policy Evaluation included?
Collection
Citation
“Global Scaling Up Handwashing Project,” Literature on Urban Health Policy in Latin America(LUHPLA), accessed October 16, 2024, https://luhpla.georgetown.domains/items/show/1619.