SANITATION PRACTICES AND IT'S IMPLICATION ON THE HEALTH OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF KWARA STATE UNIVERSITY, MALETE

SANITATION PRACTICES AND IT'S IMPLICATION ON THE HEALTH OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF KWARA STATE UNIVERSITY, MALETE

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

When it comes to preserving people's health, sanitation refers to both the policy and the practice of using sanitary practices. The World Health Organization (WHO), in their publication from 2014, defines sanitation as "the provision of facilities and services for the safe disposal of human urine and feces." It has come to everyone's attention that enhancing sanitation is recognized to have a significant influence on people's health, both inside individual families and across whole communities (WHO, 2014). In a similar vein, Lawal (2015) defines sanitation as the process of maintaining locations in a clean and sanitary state, primarily via the provision of a sewage system and a supply of clean water. The term "sanitation" refers to any and all situations that have an impact on the health of the people living in a certain location. Sanitation, in its operational sense, refers to the maintenance of hygienic conditions through services such as garbage collection and waste water disposal. This is done to ensure that people's health and welfare are not put in jeopardy, as well as to account for the potential social and environmental effects that sanitation may have on people. It is estimated that more than 35 percent of the world's population, or 2.5 billion people, lack access to even the most basic sanitation services (World Health Organization & UNICEF, 2012)

Having access to facilities for the safe disposal of human waste (feces and urine), as well as the ability to maintain hygienic conditions, through services such as garbage collection, industrial/hazardous waste management, and wastewater treatment and disposal, is what is meant by the term "basic sanitation." Basic sanitation refers to having access to facilities for the safe disposal of human waste (feces and urine).

(World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund, 2012).

WHO and UNICEF (2012) state that the world will not be able to meet the sanitation objective established by the United Nations Millennium Development Goal (MDG) unless there is an urgent acceleration in development (i.e., to halve the proportion of people without sustainable access to basic sanitation by 2015). Sanitation on the most basic level is essential in all environments, but notably educational schools.

Hygienic procedures that are carried out in schools are collectively referred to as school sanitation. According to Coppens (2015), School Sanitation and Hygiene Education is the mix of hardware and software components that are required to provide a healthy school environment in order to teach or encourage safe hygiene behaviour.

​​​​​​​STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

A lack of understanding is one of the primary factors contributing to the problematic attitudes that students have regarding the sanitation of their surrounding environment. This includes the direct repercussions of their carelessness with regard to environmental sanitation as well as the implications of inappropriate disposal of solid waste and liquid waste (Adara, 2017).

The unfavorable attitude of the student toward the environment does not exclude the educational institution, whose situation has been made worse by continual changes in curriculum material as well as school topics in elementary and secondary schools (Mohammed, 2017). For example, school courses such as hygiene, in which students were traditionally taught sanitation of the environment, have been replaced with health education. As a result, there are very few chances for students to be taught or learn the act of waste management and sanitation in schools today.

Students' attitudes on the sanitation of their surrounding surroundings are, to a large extent, shaped by the parenting practices of their parents. For example, many parents who reside in more affluent regions of the country employ a housekeeper to take care of all of the domestic and environmental chores at their home. This leaves the student at an early stage of their lives practically handicapped of the awareness towards the need of environmental sanitation, which could basically start with the child student's responsibility towards his or her room, personal belongings, and private sanitary facilities that he or she uses, knowing that the environment is more likely to be harmed as a result of (2012).

Some nomadic students' refusal to clean up their rubbish after consumption at universities as a result of careless littering of the environment, which makes the environment unpleasant and unhealthy to dwell. Unfortunately, there is a rising worry regarding the unfavorable attitude of students towards the management of environmental concerns in the university setting. It appears that students have not fully transferred the knowledge learnt into practice from basic health education taught in primary and secondary schools, which they now imbibe as a bad habit to our institutions (Abdullah, S.). This presents a challenge for the management of environmental sanitation issues, which continue to be a problem because of this (2012). This is due to the presumption that students would get adequate information through their educational experiences, as well as the fact that it is often considered beneficial to model one's school after those who are more knowledgeable. It is for this reason that it is essential to investigate the students of Kwara State University, Malete in regard to their environmental sanitation-related knowledge and attitudes

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