Activity 2
Answer the following questions:
1. What is the importance of good environmental sanitation to the health of the community and thepeople living there?
2. How can poor environmental sanitation affect the health of an individual?
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Activity 2
Answer the following questions:
1. What is the importance of good environmental sanitation to the health of the community and thepeople living there?
2. How can poor environmental sanitation affect the health of an individual?
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Explanation:
1.Proper sanitation promotes health, improves the quality of the environment and thus, the quality of life in a community. Sanitation refers to the safe collection, transportation, treatment and disposal of human wastes.
2.Poor sanitation is linked to transmission of diseases such as cholera, diarrhoea, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid and polio and exacerbates stunting. Poor sanitation reduces human well-being, social and economic development due to impacts such as anxiety, risk of sexual assault, and lost educational opportunities.