Dignity, Disease and Dollars: Asia's Urgent Sanitation Challenge
Asian Development Bank | August 2007
Abstract
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) advocates that sanitation should be an urgent priority for governments in Asia. Our call to action - "Dignity, Disease, and Dollars" - has been chosen deliberately to focus attention on three areas where stakeholders need to see results: Better facilities for individuals so they can regain their dignity, disease prevention and healthy environmental outcomes for the wider community, and financial viability of sanitation services for provider governments and utilities in tandem with affordability for households. In our view, achieving these results is feasible. We invite other agencies - public and private - to partner with us in helping governments, utilities, and communities make sanitation a priority and accelerate actions that will achieve targeted results.
Citation
Asian Development Bank. 2007. Dignity, Disease and Dollars: Asia's Urgent Sanitation Challenge. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/1446. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.Keywords
World Health Organization
Urban Health Services
Rural Health Services
Nutrition and Health Care
Health Aspects of Poverty
Health and Hygiene and the Poor
Education, Health and Social Protection
Access to Health Care
Social Aspects Of Poverty
Disease Control
Occupational Hygiene
Medical Services
Health Costs
Sanitation
Diseases
Water Quality
Respiratory Diseases
Health Indicators
Disadvantaged Groups
Disadvantaged Groups
Cost of medical care
Health status indicators
Sanitation services
Sickness
Illness
Prevention of disease
Health status indicators
Cost and standard of living
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