Determinants of quality of shared sanitation facilities in informal settlements: case study of Kisumu, Kenya

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• 作者：Sheillah Simiyu ; Mark Swilling ; Sandy Cairncross ; Richard Rheingans
• 关键词：Sanitation quality ; Common pool resources ; Management principles ; Collective action ; Behaviour
• 刊名：BMC Public Health
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：17
• 期：1
• 全文大小：457KB
• 刊物主题：Public Health; Medicine/Public Health, general; Epidemiology; Environmental Health; Biostatistics; Vaccine;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1471-2458
• 卷排序：17

文摘

BackgroundShared facilities are not recognised as improved sanitation due to challenges of maintenance as they easily can be avenues for the spread of diseases. Thus there is need to evaluate the quality of shared facilities, especially in informal settlements, where they are commonly used. A shared facility can be equated to a common good whose management depends on the users. If users do not work collectively towards keeping the facility clean, it is likely that the quality may depreciate due to lack of maintenance. This study examined the quality of shared sanitation facilities and used the common pool resource (CPR) management principles to examine the determinants of shared sanitation quality in the informal settlements of Kisumu, Kenya.