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CHAPTER ONE 

1.1   INTRODUCTION

World Health Organization defined sanitation as the means of collecting and disposing excreta and community liquids, waste in a hygienic way. So as not to endanger the health and welfare and also for the social and environmental effects, it may have on people; people have been suffering from one disease to another without knowing the problems of their illness, the situation and due to distress or dirty environment. Cleanliness is next to Godliness. Similarly, Iheke (2010) sees sanitation as the process of keeping places clean and hygienic especially by providing a sewage system and a clean water supply. Sanitation refers to all conditions that affect the health of people in a geographical area. Billions of people still live without access to sanitation facilities and are unable to practice such basic hygienic washing their hands with soap and water. Disease related to poor sanitation and water availability because many people to die of sickness like cholera, diarrhea, malaria, typhoid, which damages the body tissues. Children are most vulnerable to health hazards and consequently are affected the most. In 1998, 2.2 million people died because of poor sanitation, which the vast majorities were children. In 1950 the world health organization’s expert committee on environmental sanitation defines environmental sanitation as the control of community, water supplies, excreta and waste water disposal, refuse disposal, vector of diseases, housing conditions, food supplies and handling conditions, atmospheric conditions and the safety of the working environment. Environmental problems have grown in complexity especially with the advent of radiation and chemical hazards. Meanwhile the world needs for the basic sanitation services (like drinking water supply, excreta and waste water disposal), have greatly increased as a result of rapid population growth and highly expectations. There has been considerable awareness of water supply in institution, but the problems of excreta and waste disposal have received less attention. In Plateau State College Of Health Technology Zawan, Jos everywhere is littered with pure water polythene, pieces of papers and so on, without proper disposal. In order to focus attention of these problems. Sanitation exercise should be done daily to keep the environment clean by employing labourers that will help keep the school clean. Environments should be formulated in order to kill dangerous animals like snake, scorpion, etc. In school hostels, there are problems of over-crowding and these affects the health of the students in the hostel. More than 200 students share four (4) toilets. Mostly girls in hostel have inadequate sanitation facilities. With this premise, the researchers seek to find out the implication of sanitation practices on students health in Plateau State College Of Health Technology Zawan, Jos. Inadequate sanitation and water in school jeopardize not only the student’s health but also their attendance. Girls in particular area likely to be kept out of school, if there is no sanitation. Seminars should be organized in institutions to help educate students more, especially girls in the hostel on menstrual hygiene, sanitation hygienic practices, and cleanliness in the surroundings. To make everywhere conducive for teaching and learning, lack of skills and this have hindered the educational prospects of girls residing in the hostel. Flies petch on dirt’s, toilet etc and later petch on uncovered foods and all this are dangerous to human health. 1.2 STATEMENTS OF PROBLEM Control of pests, waste disposal had become a problem in our environment because of poor sanitation practices. Diseases related to poor sanitation and water availability causes many people to die of sickness like cholera, diarrhea, malaria, typhoid which damages the body tissues. Waste generation is a major cause of dirtiness in the hostel due to the large number of students and if not properly manage may cause a lot of harm than good, wastes are generated on daily basis through different activities of human being and if not disposed of properly the way it should, they lead to pollution of the environment having serious implications on the health of the students residing in the hostel (Earth watch, 2007). Different institutional bodies have been set up at different levels for environmental sanitations and tertiary institution like the University of Calabar is of no difference so as to ensure that students waste are properly disposed in a quest for the students residing in the hostel to be in good health. In a study carried out by Ogeah and Ikelegbe (2007) reveals that students are nonchalant about the cleanliness of their hostels and their environment generally. They further illustrated that even with availability of cleaners that students contribute to the poor hostel sanitation practices and this go a long way to affect the students’ health. Students contribute to poor hostel sanitation practices by the laziness of students to use facilities provided by the school authority for waste disposal in the hostels. Outside cleaning their rooms in the hostels most of the students feel it is humiliating for them to tidy their surroundings. Even though the University system has hired cleaners to clean the hostels these cleaners are poorly supervised and with them not doing their jobs properly the hostel surrounding becomes a breeding site for all sorts of dangerous insects and pests such as mosquito which can expose the students to malaria, tsetse fly which when a student is bitten by  will cause sleeping sickness and some many more insect with different health complications, even some students go as far as urinating and defecating indiscriminately outside the hostels because they cannot clean the dirty toilets themselves and in the long run they will still come to those polluted areas to carry out their daily activities like cooking, washing of clothes etc. It is a widely accepted fact that students are known for their laziness and ego, many of them tend to leave their area of residence without taking care of it only to be waiting for cleaners to clean it for them but even as that the hostels are always very dirty because things are not done appropriately for example a student urinating in the front of the hostel where it shouldn’t be is indirectly calling for mosquitoes to breed around the hostel and this is also the case in the area of focus for this study,. However, it is not clear on the extent in which school management and student union government (SUG) have contributed in curbing poor sanitation practices. The problem of this study is to find out the strategies which could be employed to provide facilities to students to reduce dirtiness. 1.3 AIM AND OBJECTIVES OF STUDY The purpose of this study is to find out the implication of sanitation practices on students health in Plateau State College Of Health Technology Zawan, Jos. Specifically this study was to: 

Identify the causes of poor sanitation practices on student’s health in Plateau State College Of Health Technology Zawan, Jos

Determine the extent in which the school management has contributed in providing facilities that will enhance sanitation practices in Plateau State College Of Health Technology Zawan, Jos. Find out the strategies that could be employed to curb dirtiness in Plateau State College Of Health Technology Zawan, Jos. 1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY The findings of this study will enable the students in Plateau State College Of Health Technology Zawan, Jos, to better understand and cultivate a clean environment because cleanliness is next to Godliness. The finding will help the following people: The students: to know the needs of hygiene or health practices, because cleanliness in next to Godliness and also enable to have a sound health, if sanitation is practiced by the students, sickness and diseases will be reduced. To the school management: The findings will help the school management to provide adequate facilities that will enable the labourers to keep the environment clean and tidy, also provide fund for buying disinfectant and Antiseptic, and also paying the labourers. Government: The findings will help the government, to formulate a policies that will enable their follow students keep the environment clean and regulations on the school. Also they serve as a mediator between the management and the students. 1.5 RESEARCH QUESTIONS:- In order to find answers to the objective of this study, the researchers formulated the following research questions. 1. What are the causes of poor sanitation practices on student’s health in Plateau State College Of Health Technology Zawan, Jos? 2. What are the dangers of poor sanitation practices on student’s health in Plateau State College Of Health Technology Zawan, Jos? 3. What are the strategies that could be employed to improve sanitation in Plateau State College Of Health Technology Zawan, Jos? 1.6 SCOPE and LIMITATION OF THE STUDY The scope of the study was delimited to determining the implication of sanitation practice in student’s health in schools especially those in hostel in Plateau State College Of Health Technology Zawan, Jos. In the cause of the study, the researcher encounters some limitations which limited the scope of the study; Time constraint: The researcher will simultaneously engage in this study with other academic work. This consequently will cut down on the time devoted for the research work. Inadequate Materials: Scarcity of material is also another hindrance. The researcher finds it difficult to long hands in several required material which could contribute immensely to the success of this research work. Financial constraint: Insufficient fund tends to impede the efficiency of the researcher in sourcing for the relevant materials, literature or information and in the process of data collection (internet, questionnaire and interview). DEFINITION OF TERMS Sanitation: Sanitation is defined as the prevention of human contact with feces and the proper treatment and disposal of wastewater. Sanitation also includes promoting hygiene on a personal level through washing hands with soap. Practice: The actual application or use of an idea, belief, or method, as opposed to theories relating to it. Implication: An implication is something that is suggested, or happens, indirectly. When you left the gate open and the dog escaped, you were guilty by implication. Hygiene: Hygiene is a set of practices performed to preserve health. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), "Hygiene refers to conditions and practices that help to maintain health and prevent the spread of diseases. Health: Health is the level of functional and metabolic efficiency of a living organism. In humans it is the ability of individuals or communities to adapt and self-manage when facing physical, mental, psychological and social changes with environment. 1.8 ABBREVIATIONS WHO - World Health Organization 



                                            CHAPTER TWO 
                        REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

2.1 INTRODUCTION Sanitation practice is among the powerful drivers of human development as it affects quality of life at many levels including improved health of students. There is growing awareness among public health practitioners that, until proper hygiene is consistently practiced, both at home, in the community as a whole and institutions, the desired impacts of improved sanitation and hygiene infrastructure in terms of community health benefits cannot be realized. Sanitation can be seen as the policy and practice of protecting health through hygienic measures. In the view of the World Health Organization (WHO) (2007), sanitation generally refers to the provision of facilities and services for the safe disposal of human urine and faeces. It has been realized that improving sanitation is known to have a significant impact on health of both in households and across communities (WHO, 2007). School sanitation refers to hygienic practices that occur in schools. Coppens (2005) consider School Sanitation and Hygiene Education as the combination of hardware and software components that are necessary to produce a healthy school environment to develop or support safe hygiene behaviour. Learning in an unhygienic environment can affect learning in a lot of ways. Snel (2004) and Water Aid Uganda (2013) indicate that “health influences learning and education influences health which is indicated in the fact that poor sanitation causes diarrhea which keeps students in hospitals rather than in schools”. They also noted that diarrhea kills 1.5 million children each year. It is obvious that a sick person cannot learn properly. Poor sanitation could also lead to waterborne diseases (like typhoid, cholera,), infections with intestinal worms, stunted growth and malnutrition. (Sharma, 2015).More than five million people die each year from diseases related to inadequate waste disposal systems (WHO, 2007).There are so many indications of poor sanitation in most institutions. The promises of school health and hygiene education programmed have not always been fulfilled by either the government or stakeholders in education (Danida, 2007).).The main objectives of a sanitation system is to protect and promote human health by providing a clean environment and breaking the cycle of disease. 2.2 CONCEPT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION Environmental sanitation was an instrumental concept in the founding of the World Health Organization and was defined as the control of all those factors in the physical environment which may exercise a harmful effect on human beings' physical development, health and survival. According to Aleng (2005), environment is defined as man’s immediate surroundings. The Oxford Advanced Learners English Dictionary (2001) defines environment as conditions, circumstances affecting peoples’ lives”. The Encyclopedia Britannica (1998) (vol. 4) sees environment as a “Complex of physical, chemical and biotic factors that act upon an organism or an ecologic community and ultimately determines its form and survival”. Uchegbu (1998), defines environment as the sum total for all conditions that surround man at any point in time on the earth’s surface. However, the environment as a community of organisms is not the sum total of the participating members but a dynamic nature at complex levels of interactions, unfolding in drama sketches, stretching between the remotest past at creation and the enforceable future. According to Park (1998), the term ‘environment’ implies “the eternal factors-living and nonliving, materials and non-materials which surround man”. In its modern concept, environment includes not only the water, air and soil that form our surroundings but also those social and economic conditions under which we live. Viewing human environment from the economic point, Uchegbu (1998) describes it as natural capital and analogous to financial capital assets. He further explained that any damage done to the environment run down capital which sooner or later reduces the value of its recumbent services. For residential ideals situation puts the health of its residents at stake. The residents as well can be psychologically affected when any little damage (or disturbance from its ideal condition) is done to residential housing environment. Nest (1991), defined environmental health as the “control of those factors in man’s physical environment which exercise or may exercise deleterious effects on man’s physical mental and social well-being”. According to WHO (1977), the objective of environmental health is to crane and maintain conditions in the environment that will promote health and prevent diseases. 2.3 TYPES OF SANITATION Sanitation types are many. The various types of sanitation include, Onsite sanitation This is a sanitation system in which excreta and wastewater are collected, stored, or treated on the plot where they are created or disposed. Environmental sanitation The regulation of environmental conditions linked to disease transmission is referred to as environmental sanitation. Solid waste management, water and wastewater treatment, industrial waste treatment, and noise pollution control are all subcategories of this category. Dry sanitation Dry sanitation usually means sanitation systems with dry toilets which have urine diversion, in particular the urine-diverting dry toilet. This is defined as the disposal of human waste without the use of water as a carrier. 

Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS)

This is an approach that focuses on igniting a change in sanitation behaviour through community participation rather than constructing toilets. It does this through a process of social participation. It is an approach to achieve behaviour change in mainly rural people by a process of triggering behaviour change, leading to spontaneous and long-term abandonment of open defecation practices. CLTS takes an approach to rural sanitation by ensuring communities recognize the problem of open defecation and take collective action to clean up and become "open defecation free. 2.4 GENERAL SANITATION PROBLEMS Poor sanitation is linked to transmission of diarrheal diseases such as cholera and dysentery, as well as typhoid, intestinal worm infections and polio. It exacerbates stunting and contributes to the spread of antimicrobial resistance. According to Ibadan Study Series (1983), Sanitation problems refer to conditions in our environment which affect our health especially those which have to do with dirt and infections. If we look around us in our cities, towns and villages, we see several conditions which encourage dirt and the spread of infections. We seem so helpless about what to do yet this condition do exist simply because of our individual’s habits and actions. It may be suggested that most Nigerians are not adequately educated about health to know that our environment is what we make of it, and that government expects us to play our own part in keeping it healthy even while we look up to them to govern for leadership. According to WHO (1974) infectious diseases are only one type of health threat. During the last 25 years, citizens have become more aware of health problems in the environment. The environment is made up of all the living and men living things surrounding an individual of a community. Environmental health problems are often caused by pollution is the dirtying of the air, water, or soil by chemicals, disease, or waste products. Many forms of pollution have been linked with sties diseases, including cancer, since the 1960s local, State, and national Governments have passed many laws to clean up and protect the environment. Despite much progress, pollution continues to be a health problem today. Harold (1973) stated that, sanitation is the act of controlling a person’s surroundings to promote health and comfort or the protection and preservation of public health. According to WHO (1974) since environment concerns all the conditions that surround person, environmental sanitation is broadly concerned with environmental and public health. It includes sewage disposal, personal and food hygiene, provision of clean water, domestic waste disposal, industrial pollution, housing and control of infectious diseases. . Environment is the aggregate of all external condition and influences affecting the life development of organism e.g. human being. While sanitation is the science of controlling Man’s surrounding to promote health and comfort. It includes purifying water, removing wastes and inspecting foods (Akinjide,1997). Environmental sanitation is defined as the cleanliness of environment, the removal of refuse and anything that is injurious both liquid and solid waste, purification of air, the supply and protection of portable water, good housing, streets and environmental noise control. Ahmed (1994) defined environmental sanitation as the process of cleansing, tidying and beautifying the environment for the purpose of controlling, communicable diseases and promotes optimal health. 2.5 SANITATION AND HYGIENE PRACTICES Environment (from the French word: to circle or surround) is the social and cultural conditions that affect an individual or community. In its widest use, it refers to all the biophysical features, organic and inorganic resources and all bio-diversity disposable to humankind. Environment is defined as the sum total of conditions within which organisms live. The “environment” includes not only the physical and biological elements of nature, but also human-based systems like cultural, economic, political, technological, spiritual and relational that make up the setting in which people live. The concept of environment encompasses all the natural resources which interlink in a complex global ecosystem embodying many sub-systems. Disruption in such systems, which is as a result of cumulative indiscriminate degradation which takes place in localized environments such as villages, towns and cities, distort the delicate ecological balance and have dire consequences for mankind, and thus provide a compelling justification for the preservation of the environment. Hygiene is the discipline of health and it’s safeguarding. Health is the capacity to function efficiently within one's surroundings. Our health as individuals depends on the healthfulness of our environment. A healthful environment, devoid of risky substances allows the individual to attain complete physical, emotional and social potential. Hygiene is articulated in the efforts of an individual to safeguard, sustain and enhance health status. Measures of hygiene are vital in the fight against diarrhea diseases, the major fatal disease of the young in developing countries. The most successful interventions against diarrhea diseases are those that break off the transmission of contagious agents at home. Personal and domestic hygiene can be enhanced with such trouble-free actions like ordinary use of water in adequate quantity for hand washing, bathing, laundering and cleaning of cooking and eating utensils; regular washing and change of clothes; eating healthy and clean foods and appropriate disposal of solid and liquid waste. The WHO defines hygiene to the conditions and practices that help to maintain health and prevent the spread of diseases. Medical hygiene therefore includes a specific set of practices associated with this preservation of health, for example environmental cleaning, sterilization of equipment, hand hygiene, water and sanitation and safe disposal of waste. Progress in sanitation and improved hygiene has greatly improved health, but many people still have no adequate means of appropriately disposing off their waste. 2.6 FACTORS INFLUENCING SANITATION According to Institute of Education, University of Ibadan (1983), conditions of modern way of life have created many problems relating to man’s environment. They identify three sub-factors of environment which affect the human health, namely; physical factors and biological factors. Examples of physical factors, whether, climate, housing, soil, water and food supply, air (clean or polluted) and other physical things surrounding us. Examples of biological factors were given as germs, insects, rodents, plants, animals and even human beings. Environmental factors Environmental factors such as soil type and porosity, groundwater level and hydraulics, and distance to surface water influence the degree of contamination. In the choice of sanitation technologies, ground conditions, particularly groundwater level, soil permeability and stability, are important considerations. PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT FACTORS According to Umoh (2002), physical environment refers to the non-living part of the environment: air, water, soil, waste, mineral salts, furniture, housing, food items, and climatic factors such as temperature, humidity, sunshine, rainfall, etc. Air is essentially necessary for life to exist. This is the reason why adequate ventilation is a fundamental consideration in the design of residential housing. Air is polluted when there is the presence of substances there in quantities, characteristics of duration, such that may affect health of human beings, animals, plants, properties and structures. Water bodies from the home of fishes and some other aquatic life. Our water environment must be clean if these life forms will function most effectively. To reduce water related infections, water required for domestic use must be wholesome or pure. Land is very vital natural resources, which is the home of our mineral resources, terrestrial animals, valuable forestry resources and important factors for our physical development, etc. It is therefore very necessary that the soil be protected. The Institute of Water and Environmental Management underscored the need to protect our land from pollution through effective waste management. Umoh (2002) classified physical environment factors as follows: climate, attitude, soil, air, chemical, radiation. According to Umoh (2002). 

BIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS

According to Uchegbu (1998), all the living things in an area: - plants animals and microorganisms constitute the biological environment. They are dependent on each other and ultimately on their physical environment. Man deliberately manipulates the biological environment. He cultivates useful plants to provide food, clothing and shelter, and he raises farm animals for their meat, milk, leather, wool and other useful products. He hunts and kills wild animals and other predators, and destroys insects, which transmit disease or compete with him for food. In many parts of the tropics, insects, rodents and other vectors of diseases grow and multiply rapidly. This is partly because the natural environment favours their survival and also because in some of these areas, relatively little has been done to control these agents. CLIMATIC FACTORS: This Is divided into six categories: temperature, rainfall, relative – humidity, sunlight, wind speed. He said that during hamartant, low relative humidity and high wind speed predispose to respiratory tract infections. During the rainy season, high temperature and humidity allow for rapid proliferation of arthropod vectors (ticks and insects) leading epidemics of vector borne disease, and six development of helminthes larvae. According to Umoh (2002), decrease in air pressure may lead nitrogen bubbles in bloodstream resulting in “bends”. Poorly constructed houses may predispose to disease. In general, climate variations in a given geographic area may markedly influence the epidemiological patterns of certain infections severe climatic extremes may have direct on man resulting in morbidity and even mortality. 2.7 THE NEED FOR HYGIENE AND SANITATION MANAGEMENT Poor sanitation gives many infections the ideal opportunity to spread: plenty of waste and filth for the flies to breed on, and unsafe water to drink, wash with or swim in. Among human parasitic diseases, schistosomiasis (sometimes called bilharzias) ranks second behind malaria in terms of socioeconomic and public health importance in tropical and subtropical areas. The disease is endemic in 74 developing countries, infecting more than 200 million people. Of these, 20 million suffer severe consequences from the disease [5]. Sound environmental sanitation management ensures that appropriate intervention are introduced and implemented to promote behavioural change. Poor environmental sanitation or hygiene also has tremendous economic costs. Poor environmental sanitation practices also affect the environment in diverse ways. In regions where a large proportion of the population are not served with adequate water supply and sanitation, sewage flows directly into streams, rivers, lakes and wetlands, affecting coastal and marine ecosystems, fouling the environment and exposing millions of children to disease. Particularly in the context of urbanization, indiscriminate littering, domestic wastewater, sewage and solid waste improperly discharged presents a variety of concerns as these promote the breeding of communicable disease vectors as a result of air, water and soil pollution. Poor waste management also contributes to a loss of valuable bio-diversity. Improved environmental sanitation management reduces environmental burdens, increases sustainability of environmental resources and allows for a healthier, more secure future for the population. Solid waste management is an integral part of urban and environmental management, like most of other infrastructural services has come under great stress, consider low priority areas, solid waste management was never taken up seriously either by public or by concerned agency or authorities and now the piled up waste is threatening our health, environment and wellbeing. 2.8 COMPONENTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH The kind of environment which we live poses a kind of menace to our health; the air we breathe is constantly polluted with carbon monoxide from motorists, factories and industries. The water we drink is always half-way purified due to unconventional attitudes by some of those entrusted with the work. Most of the food is either not nutritious or polluted right from the source up to consumer end. The land we use is always polluted as a result of some people’s behaviour of indiscriminate urination and defecation; the houses of most of our people are not adequately planned for ventilation and drainage which creates intensive heat and formation of many stagnant gutters where mosquitoes and other insects breed. Most of our peoples’ life-style is discouraging because it endangers the health of the others. Smoking, drinking of alcohol, excessive eating of fatty food, sedentary life – style, unhygienic living, drug-abusing and excessive work without adequate rest and sleep, lack of love and trust among many people, poverty are indices that denies many people the right to live hygienically. All these environmental factors contribute immensely to the health problems facing our people. There is constant outbreak of microscopic organism diseases such as cholera, typhoid fever, and meningitis in strategic places. Rodent’s nuisance, outbreak of malaria infections, sleeping sickness, obesity, and heart diseases are common feature in our society. The cause of these health problems is attributed to both microorganism and peoples’ behaviour. However, in the actual sense, people’s behaviour is the predominant feature in the diseases causative trend, because if people attitudinal patterns will change from what we are seeing now, most, if not all of the above health problems will be eradicated. Although, tragically, the way people live is all too frequently characterized by ignorance and misinformation regarding health matters. 2.8.1 SAFE WATER SUPPLY WHO (1984) stated that safe drinking water is that which is “wholesome and pot prejudicial to health”. Simplicity in this definition is the requirement that the water is without risk of causing chemical irritation or intoxication and microbial infection. The safest water is perhaps the treated pipe borne water, but since this is not available to the majority of the population, deep wells and springs are recommended especially for the people in the rural areas, where water must be fetched from surface sources such as rivers, lakes and streams known to be contaminated with human waste. It is absolutely necessary that any of the methods for purification of water be adopted. For example, the heat destroys bacteria. Boiling of water for some minutes will completed sterilize it and make it safe for drinking. Other methods include filtration and disinfections. Filtration is done with a clean white piece of cloth spread over a clean container and suspected water poured over it. The piece of cloth then suspended particles in water. The disinfections involved the use of chemicals such as “tincture of iodine” and chlorine solution (made from chloride of lime). Alum has been known to be used in purification also. It is important to point out that when the quality of water is not certain, it is advisable to boil and strain it before consumption 2.8.2 WATER BORNE DISEASES According to Umoh (2002), diseases – producing germs do not normally multiply in water, but they can survive in water and remain in a state that can set up an infection in a new host. Water serves as an important vehicle for the transfer of diseases of the alimentary canal as well as of worms, such as Guinea worm or hook-worms. But the four major infections which are transmitted through water, notably by drinking or eating any food washed with infected water, are typhoid fever, paratyphoid, cholera and bacillary. Other infections are amoebic dysentery, poliomyelitis and hepatitis, although it is not generally agreed in medical circles that they are usually also transmitted through consumption of contaminated water. 2.8.3 TYPHOID FEVER According to Nwanta and Achi (2002) typhoid fever is caused by a bacillus, which sets up an infection in the intestinal tract and then enters the blood to be carried to all parts of the body. During the course of this disease, ulcers of the intestine develop which may lead to severe bleeding of perforation intestinal contents to get into the abdominal cavity with resulting peritonitis. 10% percent of typhoid fever patients die. In the past, typhoid fever was an exceedingly prevalent disease in the country, but improved sanitation has almost completely eradicated it. The danger of typhoid fever, however, will remain for many years and outbreaks can be expected whenever sanitation precaution is relaxed. Typhoid carriers cause most outbreaks of typhoid fever. These are individuals who, although apparently perfectly well, harbor the germs in their bodies and discharge them with their excreta. One or two percent of person who recovered from typhoid bacilli become carriers of typhoid for years or for life. Some of these contaminate water or milk supplies. Others engage in food handling and though soiled hands contaminate food which may serve as a source of infection for others. The control of typhoid fever has been one of the great achievements of public health. We must assume that sources of infection still exist, and take precaution accordingly. All sewage must be considered infectious and all rivers which pass through urban communities must be considered contaminated. When traveling in foreign countries, individual resistance to typhoid should be increased by the use of typhoid vaccine. 2.8.4 DYSENTERY In the view of Adewole (1999), severe diarrhea with blood in the stool is called dysentery. There are two major types of dysentery; amebic and bacillary. Amebic dysentery is cause by a single cell organism called Amoeba histolytic. It is contracted from food or drink that has been contaminated with intestinal discharges containing the infective organism. The distribution of Amebic dysentery is probably world-wide, but it is much more common in the tropics and sub-tropics than in temperate regions. Where sanitary conditions are poor, the occurrence of the disease may be high. Prevention depends upon providing safe drinking water and avoiding raw fruits and vegetables which may have been contaminated with the organism. 

Bacillary dysentery is caused by a germ called the dysentery bacillus. Like amebic dysentery it occurs most frequently in tropical and subtropical regions and is transmitted by food and drink which have been contaminated by the intestinal discharges of patients or carriers. Prevention depends upon the same general sanitary measures as are employed for the prevention of amebic dysentery. Cholera is severe and highly fatal disease of the intestinal, with such violent diarrhea and vomiting that the body literally shrinks from the loss of water. The cholera germ is spread almost entirely through drinking water and its spread is effectively controlled by adequate purification and sanitation of water supplies.

2.9 REFUSE DISPOSAL Institute of Education University of Ibadan (1983) stressed that refuse includes all the solid waste materials from human habitations except sewage – primarily ashes, rubbish, and garbage. Refuse also accumulates from industrial establishments. Ashes are now of minor importance in household wastes of many cities due to the use of oil, gas, and electricity for the heating of dwellings. Garbage is the refuse (vegetable, animal and food waste) resulting from the preparation of cooking and serving of food. Rubbish includes oil household and business refuse like rags paper, excision and other packing materials, wood, grease, crockery, metals, plastics and other solid wastes. 2.9.1 REFUSE COLLECTION According to WHO (1971) this refers to the point where and how the various household bins or bins used in markets stall and offices are emptied. In most Nigerian urban centers, since the institution of sanitation authorities, collection points have been provided along the streets and in some cases collection services workers move round with their vehicles with bells in their hands for every household to empty their bins into their collection vehicles. In most rural communities, however, collection service is not available. Household bins are emptied by the roadside and carelessly spilled even on the premises. As the government intensifies proper collection of refuse the urban areas, towns union and village health communities should embark on sound collection in our rural communities. The methods of Disposal of refuse are:- a) Controlled tipping: Pits or dry land may be used in this method. The rubbish is tipped each day in a planned manner and covered with a layer of soil. The earth cover is compacted. If pits are used instead of dry land as explained above, the pit should have a cover and in an enclosed place with a door leading to the pit. b) Pulverization: This is a method whereby refuse is broken into pieces by machines. It is recommended because it is sometimes used as a preliminary to controlled tipping. It may also serve a useful mixture for fertilizing and lightening heavy soil. Above all, it is incombustible. c) Incineration: This is a method whereby solid refuse is burnt in an incinerator. The rubbish is put inside the incinerator and burnt. The ash formed is removed to make room for another burning. This seems the most hygienic method of disposal. d) Burning: Burning is the same as the burning described in incineration except that burning in incineration is controlled while in this, burning is the open type in this type of burning cans and broken bottles litter the place while smoke and odours pollute the air it is also a fire risk. e) Dumping in the river or sea: This as the name implies is collecting all the rubbish and dumping it into the river. f) Open dumping: a good number of rural communities practice this. It simply means dumping refuse in any open space which is not covered. They are worst if they are close to houses. It provides ideal breeding places for vectors, pests and rodents.







CHAPTER THREE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY RESEARCH DESIGN The researcher used descriptive research survey design in building up this project work the choice of this research design was considered appropriate because of its advantages of identifying attributes of a large population from a group of individuals. The design was suitable for the study as the study sought to examine sanitation practices and implication on student’s health. SOURCES OF DATA COLLECTION Data were collected from two main sources namely: (i)Primary source and (ii)Secondary source Primary source: These are materials of statistical investigation which were collected by the research for a particular purpose. They can be obtained through a survey, observation questionnaire or as experiment; the researcher has adopted the questionnaire method for this study. Secondary source: These are data from textbook Journal handset etc. they arise as byproducts of the same other purposes. Example administration, various other unpublished works and write ups were also used. POPULATION OF THE STUDY Population of a study is a group of persons or aggregate items, things the researcher is interested in getting information on the study sanitation practices and implication on student’s health. In Plateau State College Of Health Technology Zawan has a population of over 6000 Students, out of this Population 200, were selected randomly by the researcher as the population of the study.

SAMPLE AND SAMPLING PROCEDURE Sample is the set people or items which constitute part of a given population sampling. Due to large size of the target population, the researcher used the Taro Yamani formula to arrive at the sample population of the study. n= N 

   1+N(e)2

n= 200 1+200(0.05)2 = 200 1+200(0.0025) = 200 200 1+0.5 = 1.5 = 133. 3.5 Instrument for data collection The major research instrument used is the questionnaires. This was appropriately moderated. The head of departments were administered with the questionnaires to complete, with or without disclosing their identities. The questionnaire was designed to obtain sufficient and relevant information from the respondents. The primary data contained information extracted from the questionnaires in which the respondents were required to give specific answer to a question by ticking in front of an appropriate answer and administered the same on staff of the institution: The questionnaires contained about 16 structured questions which were divided into sections A and B. 

Validation of the research instrument

The questionnaire used as the research instrument was subjected to face its validation. This research instrument (questionnaire) adopted was adequately checked and validated by the supervisor his contributions and corrections were included into the final draft of the research instrument used. 

METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS

The data collected was not an end in itself but it served as a means to an end. The end being the use of the required data to understand the various situations it is with a view to making valuable recommendations and contributions. To this end, the data collected has to be analysis for any meaningful interpretation to come out with some results. It is for this reason that the following methods were adopted in the research project for the analysis of the data collected. For a comprehensive analysis of data collected, emphases were laid on the use of absolute numbers frequencies of responses and percentages. Answers to the research questions were provided through the comparison of the percentage of workers response to each statement in the questionnaire related to any specified question being considered. Frequency in this study refers to the arrangement of responses in order of magnitude or occurrence while percentage refers to the arrangements of the responses in order of their proportion. The simple percentage method is believed to be straight forward easy to interpret and understand method. The researcher therefore chooses the simple percentage as the method to use. The formula for percentage is shown as. % = f/N x 100/1 Where f = frequency of respondents response N = Total Number of response of the sample 100 = Consistency in the percentage of respondents for each item contained in questions.



CHAPTER FOUR PRESENTATION ANALYSIS INTERPRETATION OF DATA 4.1 INTROUCTION Efforts will be made at this stage to present, analyze and interpret the data collected during the field survey. This presentation will be based on the responses from the completed questionnaires. The result of this exercise will be summarized in tabular forms for easy references and analysis. It will also show answers to questions relating to the research questions for this research study. The researcher employed simple percentage in the analysis. DATA ANALYSIS The data collected from the respondents were analyzed in tabular form with simple percentage for easy understanding. A total of 133(one hundred and thirty three) questionnaires were distributed and 133 questionnaires were returned Question 1 Gender distribution of the respondents. TABLE I Gender distribution of the respondents

Response Frequency Percent Valid Percent Cumulative Percent

Valid Male 77 57.9 57.9 57.9


Female 56 42.1 42.1 100.0


Total 133 100.0 100.0


From the above table it shows that 57.9% of the respondents were male while 42.1% of the respondents were female. Question 2 Do the students of PLSCHT ZAWAN have knowledge of basic personal hygiene?

Table II the students of Plateau State College Of Health Technology Zawan do have knowledge of basic personal hygiene

Response Frequency Percent Valid Percent Cumulative Percent

Valid Agreed 51 38.3 38.3 38.3


Strongly agreed 31 23.3 23.3 61.7


Disagreed 23 17.3 17.3 78.9


Strongly disagreed 28 21.1 21.1 100.0


Total 133 100.0 100.0


In the table above, the researcher asked the respondent if the students of Plateau State College Of Health Technology Zawan do have knowledge of basic personal hygiene, it can be seen that 51 respondents which represents 38.3% of the respondents agreed to this fact that the students of Plateau State College Of Health Technology Zawan do have knowledge of basic personal hygiene, 31 respondents which represents 23.3% of the respondents strongly agreed to this fact, 23 respondents which represents 17.3% of the respondents disagreed to this fact, while 28 respondents which represents 21.1% strongly disagreed. The researcher therefore concludes that the students of Plateau State College Of Health Technology Zawan do have knowledge of basic personal hygiene. Question 3 Are there proper hygienic practices among students in Plateau State College Of Health Technology Zawan?



Table 3 there are proper hygienic practices among students in Plateau State College Of Health Technology Zawan, pupils

Response Frequency Percent Valid Percent Cumulative Percent

Valid Agreed 55 41.4 41.4 41.4


Strongly agreed 34 25.6 25.6 66.9


Disagreed 21 15.8 15.8 82.7


Strongly disagreed 23 17.3 17.3 100.0


Total 133 100.0 100.0


In the table above the researcher asked the respondents if, there are proper hygienic practices among students in Enugu State College of Education pupils, it can be observed that 55 respondents which represents 41.4% of the respondents agreed that there are proper hygienic practices among students in Plateau State College Of Health Technology Zawan, pupils, 34 respondents which represents 25.6% of the respondents strongly agreed to this fact, 21 respondents which represents 15.8% of the respondents disagreed to this fact, while 23 respondents which represents 17.3% of the respondents strongly disagreed. The researcher therefore concludes that there are proper hygienic practices among students in Enugu State College of Education pupils. Question 4 Are there measures put in place to help students maintain good hygiene practice in Plateau State College Of Health Technology Zawan.?



Table 4 There are measures put in place to help students maintain good hygiene practice in Plateau State College Of Health Technology Zawan

Response Frequency Percent Valid Percent Cumulative Percent

Valid Agreed 51 38.3 38.3 38.3


Strongly agreed 36 27.1 27.1 65.4


Disagreed 28 21.1 21.1 86.5


Strongly disagreed 18 13.5 13.5 100.0


Total 133 100.0 100.0


In the table above, the researcher asked the respondents if, there are measures put in place to help students maintain good hygiene practice in Plateau State College Of Health Technology Zawan, it was discovered that 51 respondents which represents 38.3% of the respondents agreed that there are measures put in place to help students maintain good hygiene practice in Enugu State College of Education, 36 respondents which represents 27.1% of the respondents strongly agreed to this fact, 28 respondents which represents 21.1% of the respondents disagreed, while 18 respondents which represents 13.5% strongly disagreed. The researcher therefore concludes that there are measures put in place to help students maintain good hygiene practice in Plateau State College Of Health Technology Zawan. 




                                 CHAPTER FIVE 
      SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

5.1 INTRODUCTION It is pertinent to note that this research was aimed at addressing the problems of lack of proper sanitation and it health effect on students, thus the topic “sanitation practices and implication on student’s health”. In the preceding chapter, the relevant data collected for this study were presented, critically analyzed and appropriate interpretation given. In this chapter, certain recommendations made which in the opinion of the researcher will be of benefits in addressing the challenges associated with sanitation practices and implication on student’s health. 5.2 SUMMARY The findings of this study revealed that the causes of poor sanitation are inadequate hygiene education, neglect of health facilities, insufficient water supply, inadequate toilet/latrine facilities, lack of dustbins for disposing wastes, throwing rubbish anywhere in the compound, inadequate funds to provide sanitation equipment and poor waste storage methods adopted. The findings are supported by Danida (2007) when he said that schools often suffer from non-existent or insufficient water supply, sanitation and hand washing facilities, dirty and unsafe water supply; toilets or latrines that are not adapted to the needs of students particularly girls; nonexistence of hygiene education, unhealthy and dirty classrooms/school compounds among others. Also, the findings are also supported by Ogawa (2005) when he revealed that lack of sanitation, unsafe disposal or storage of waste in/around houses and streets, and in undesignated containers may provide habitats for vectors of diseases that cause various infectious diseases including typhoid fever and diarrheas. It also revealed that the effects of poor sanitation on students’ health include students being affected by diarrhea , students being affected by typhoid, students falling sick due to cholera infection, students being sick due to malaria and student mortality in extreme cases. The findings are supported by WHO (2007) when it estimated that 88% of diarrheal disease is caused by unsafe water supply and inadequate sanitation and hygiene. 5.3 CONCLUSION Sanitation is necessary in all places which includes schools. School sanitation refers to hygienic practices that occur in schools. However, sanitation in institutions has been observed to be poor. This is due to a number of factors such as inadequate hygiene education, neglect of health facilities, insufficient water supply, inadequate toilet/latrine facilities, lack of dustbins for disposing wastes, throwing rubbish anywhere in the compound, inadequate funds to provide sanitation equipment and poor waste storage methods adopted. Poor sanitation has led to negative effects on students’ health. Poor sanitation leads to students’ ill health which can lead to failure of students in their academic work. Effects of poor sanitation on student health are manifested in students being sick due to diseases like malaria, cholera, diarrhea, and even death in extreme cases. Due to these negative effects, school management has devised means of ensuring proper sanitation. These ways include employing cleaners to keep the environment clean and encouraging people to undertake research in environmental sanitation. However, these aren’t enough to ensure proper sanitation. Ensuring sanitation in schools involves a lot of ways which should preferably be used together instead of adopting these methods in isolation. The methods include; the need for students to undertake hygiene education, more health workers should be trained to include sanitation practices counseling into their consultations with patients, more toilets should be put in place in strategic locations to complement the existing ones so as to reduce incessant urination and fecal deposit, impromptu inspection around the campus from time to time. Management should source for more funds from local and international levels which would be used for providing sanitation facilities; partnership should be established with private agencies to help convert waste to wealth through waste reduction, reuse and recycling and regular seminars should be organized on the need for sanitation. 5.4 RECOMMENDATIONS Based on the findings, the following recommendations were made; 1) The school management has to ensure that the various ways of improving sanitation within the institution are used in synergy instead of in isolation due to fact these methods are all important. 2) The government at all levels should provide the necessary funds needed by the school management to ensure the procurement of various facilities/equipment needed for students to live in a hygienic environment 3) The school management has to ensure that those in charge of cleaning the school environment are adequately monitored so as to ensure they discharge their duties properly.



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QUESTIONNAIRES

PLATEAU STATE COLLEGE OF 

                     HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ZAWAN

SCHOOL OF PHARMACY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH P.O Box 2575 JOS SOUTH L.G.A

Dear respondent! We are the final year students of group 25 from Plateau State College of Health Technology Zawan undergoing National Diploma in Public Health. We carry out our survey or research on the topic "Sanitation Practice and implications on Students Health" (A Case Study of Plateau State College of Health Technology Zawan, Jos.) This study is academics as such all information supplied by you shall be used solely for this purpose and shall be treated as highly confidential. We here by, soliciting, seeking for your cooperation in answering the attached questionnaires as honestly as possible.

QUESTIONNAIRE PLEASE TICK IN THE RIGHT BOXES AND WRITE WHERE NEEDED. Gender Male [ ] Female [ ] Age Range 16-20 [ ] 20-25 [ ] 26+ [ ] Level in school 100 [ ] 200 [ ] 300 [ ] 400 [ ] Others …………………. Section B Students of Plateau State College of Health Technology Zawan have knowledge of basic personal hygiene? Strongly Agreed [ ] Agreed [ ] Strongly Disagreed [ ] Disagreed [ ] There are proper hygienic practices among students in Plateau State College of Health Technology Zawan pupils. Strongly Agreed [ ] Agreed [ ] Strongly Disagreed [ ] Disagreed [ ] There are measures put in place to help students maintain good hygiene practice in Plateau State College Of Health Technology Zawan. Strongly Agreed [ ] Agreed [ ] Strongly Disagreed [ ] Disagreed [ ] List some of these measures if any: ….……………………………………………………………………………. ….…………………………………………………………………………….. ….……………………………………………………………………………….. ….………………………………………………………………………………… There are causes of poor sanitation practices on student’s health in Plateau State College Of Health Technology Zawan. Strongly Agreed [ ] Agreed [ ] Strongly Disagreed [ ] Disagreed [ ] Which of these are the cause of poor sanitation practices amongst students: Student’s Attitude [ ] Poor waste disposal system [ ]

Poor sanitation posed health threat to the students. Strongly Agreed [ ] Agreed [ ] Strongly Disagreed [ ] Disagreed [ ] Poor sanitation can lead to the contamination of infection. Strongly Agreed [ ] Agreed [ ] Strongly Disagreed [ ] Disagreed [ ] Poor sanitation can lead to environmental pollution. Strongly Agreed [ ] Agreed [ ] Strongly Disagreed [ ] Disagreed [ ] Poor sanitation breeds unwanted rodents and reptiles harmful to safety. Strongly Agreed [ ] Agreed [ ] Strongly Disagreed [ ] Disagreed [ ] What do you suggest that the school can do to improve sanitation in the school? ….……………………………………………………………………………………… What do you think the students can do to improve their level of hygiene and sanitation in school? ….……………………………………………………………………………… — Preceding unsigned comment added by 105.113.56.141 (talk) 14:23, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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