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Improvement of Sanitation in Oyo State, Nigeria

M. Ademola Omishakin

Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

M.K.C. Sridhar

Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

D.S. Ofor

Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

THIS PAPER describes how a community in Nigeria learnt to appreciate the inter-relationsh ips between poor sanitation and health as a result of health education intervention for a period of 12 months. The results have been encouraging, as the com munity has begun to use simple technologies such as drum and mud incinerators for the burning of refuse.

The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, Vol. 108, No. 5, 164-165 (1988)
DOI: 10.1177/146642408810800507
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