Title: Environmental Factors Student’s Name: Professor’s Name: Date:

1

Environmental Factor

The main environmental factor that has the possibility of affecting the safety and health of infants is unsafe drinking water and poor sanitation (Adams, Sims, Bartram & Chartier, 2019).

In most scenarios, contaminated water results from poor care of the environment.

Lack of good care and education of children can cause poor sanitation.

Describe the environmental factor

Explanation of unsafe drinking water and poor sanitation in infants

2

How unsafe drinking water and poor sanitation can affect infants health and safety

It causes diarrhea infections.

Infants become underweight.

They are prone to diseases.

They become physically stunted.

Problems that result from unsafe drinking water and poor sanitation.

3

A health promotion plan

Families may help in reducing sanitation-related and waterborne diseases with standard hygiene practices.

Combination of household hygiene, food protection, and handwashing curbs infant diarrhea.

Safer disposal of feces will reduce the prevalence of childhood diarrhea.

Health promotion plan.

How the health promotion plan will help curb the problem.

4

A health promotion plan

Providing efficient education and raising awareness of environmental health elements (Mercier, 2017).

Reducing the infant exposure towards pollutants by regulations and education to environmental factors.

Environmental factors are prone to possibly affecting the child’s health together with development.

Description of health promotion plans.

How the health promotion plan will reduce the impact of the problem.

5

Recommendations on accident prevention and safety promotion

Behavioral factors are crucial in determining sustainability and uptake of water adoption, hygiene and sanitation practices, and technologies.

Installing and functioning of sanitation and water facilities need the knowledge transfer on their use.

Maintaining and replacing existing facilities or services.

Hygiene promotion is vital in achieving improvements.

Recommendations on how to prevent problems caused by unsafe drinking water and poor sanitation.

Measures that will help in reducing the problem impacts.

6

Recommendations on accident prevention and safety promotion

Drinking, clean water always.

Family members and parents need to sanitize themselves together with their children.

Avoid direct contact with unsafe water.

Ways that can reduce the impacts of unsafe drinking water and poor sanitation.

7

Examples, interventions, and suggestions

I suggest that every person must avoid direct contact with unsafe water.

Avoid contact with water contaminated, especially by industrial chemicals, and avoid drinking the water.

Individuals must sanitize themselves together with their children (Scully, 2017).

Suggestions on how people may reduce the problems caused by unsafe drinking water and poor sanitation.

8

Examples, interventions, and suggestions

Families should be aware of drinking safe water and good sanitation.

Teachers and parents to offer education concerning safe drinking water and sanitation.

Community education by government bodies.

Interventions that will help reduce the impact of unsafe drinking water and poor sanitation.

9

Community resources, a national resource, and a Web-based resource.

Family members are always the closest people to their children.

They should educate them effectively on drinking clean water and living in a clean environment.

Community health workers need to take up their job of educating children on the dangers posed by unsafe drinking water and poor sanitation.

A community resource that will curb the environmental problem.

10

Community resources, a national resource, and a Web-based resource.

Teachers and parents must ensure that children are aware of the importance of drinking safe water and living in a clean environment.

Governments must ensure that its citizens know the benefits of living in a clean environment and drinking safe water.

National and web resources that impacts greatly on curbing effects of unsafe drinking water and poor sanitation.

11

References

Adams, J., Sims, J., Bartram, J., & Chartier, Y. (2019). Water, sanitation and hygiene standards for schools in low-cost settings. World Health Organization.

Mercier, C. (2017). Infection control: Hospital and community. Nelson Thornes.

Scully, C. (2017). Medical problems in dentistry E-book. Elsevier Health Sciences.