Sanitation and its Impact on Diarrhoea
Abstract
Lagos is the commercial capital of Nigeria. It is ranked the sixth mega-city and Africa’s foremost urban center. The city has a population of 20.19 million and this is expected to rise to 35 million by 2020. The city is a... [ view full abstract ]
Lagos is the commercial capital of Nigeria. It is ranked the sixth mega-city and Africa’s foremost urban center. The city has a population of 20.19 million and this is expected to rise to 35 million by 2020. The city is a product of urban growth through rural-urban migrations. Lagos retained its industrial and commercial attributes as the capital city of Nigeria and continued to maintain this purposes till now, with industrial and commercial attributes contributing to its population growth. This places a strain on the existing infrastructure, including its sanitation and waste management, and the growth of slums.
Urbanization brings changes in the way of people's life - in the number of people they see in the places they were, and often in the quality of water they drink, the air they breathe, and the home in which they live. Such changes have profound impacts - both positive and negative for the health of city residents. Without a fundamental change and a well-planned system, the entire system might collapse as the urban cities will be sprawling with inhuman slums and informal settlements as this trend is already growing in Lagos at an increased rate due to Rural- Urban Migration.
According to World Bank Sanitation is the single most cost-effective major public health intervention to reduce child mortality. Annually 315,000 children in Lagos State suffer from at least one episode of diarrhoea and over 28,000 of these children (around 9%) die as a result of the disease. These illnesses and deaths can be prevented through the application of simple, effective and low cost interventions1. World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that 88% of deaths from diarrhoea are attributable to four issues: consumption of unsafe water; inadequate sanitation; poor personal hygiene and the lack of access to childhood immunisation as a preventative measure.
Authors
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Olukemi Adeyoju
(Save the Children,)
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George Akor
(Save the Children, Nigeria)
Topic Areas
II. Environmental Health 2.1 Disease mapping 2.2 Assessment of the impact of environmental , IV. Behaviors 4.1 Mobilities and health 4.2 Spatial analysis of substance abuse and treatm , VII. Urban health policies 7.1 Governance and policy frameworks 7.2 Health in all policies
Session
PS-1 » POSTER SESSION 1 (12:10 - Friday, 1st April, TBA)
Paper
Sanitation_and_its_impact_on_Diarrheoa.doc
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