Volume : III, Issue : V, May - 2014

Open Defecation: Awareness & Practices of Rural Districts of Tamil Nadu, India

J. Geetha, S. Sampath Kumar

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In the most developing countries the open defecation is the ‘way of life’. The habit of open defecation is inseparably integrated in the day to day life of the people especially in the rural areas and urban slums of India. The practice is considered as most serious health and environmental hazard. (WHO Fact Sheet, 2014).It is harder to bend the iron mind of people with regard to open defecation, which they feel that they practice over many generations. This paper is an attempt to ing out the awareness level and practices of 1800 randomly selected households from 60 panchyaths of Namakkal, Perambalur and Pudukkottai Districts of Tamil Nadu on open defecation. The study revealed that open defecation and its attendant medical problems were rampant in the community with nobody even bothering to do anything to overcome it. While open defecation was in practice, many women specially mothers (98%) did not know how to dispose of their children’s feaces safely

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J. Geetha, S. Sampath Kumar Open Defecation: Awareness & Practices of Rural Districts of Tamil Nadu, India International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol.III, Issue. V, May 2014

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