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Promoting Handwashing Behavior: The Effects of Large-Scale Community and School-Level Interventions

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Promoting Handwashing Behavior: The Effects of Large-Scale Community and School-Level Interventions
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/0OTVLH
 
Creator Galiani, Sebastian
Gertler, Paul
Ajzenman, Nicolás
Orsola-Vidal, Alexandra
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description This paper analyzes a randomized experiment that uses novel strategies to promote handwashing with soap at critical points in time in Peru. It evaluates a large-scale comprehensive initiative that involved both community and school activities in addition to communication campaigns. The analysis indicates that the initiative was successful in reaching the target audience and in increasing the treated population’s knowledge about appropriate handwashing behavior. These improvements translated into higher self-reported and observed handwashing with soap at critical junctures. However, no significant improvements in the health of children under the age of 5 years were observed.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Contributor Rubio, Karl
 
Type Sample survey data