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Total Sanitation Campaign: Human Rights Impact Assessment of a Health Program


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This article undertakes a human rights impact assessment of Total Sanitation Campaign which was launched to eliminate the practice of open defecation and block the fecal-oral transmission of diseases. Overall this program has been found to be sound from the human rights perspective; however, there are some implementation issues which can restrict the human rights of the people, especially, the right to health.

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Human Rights, Health Policy, Sanitation
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Kapil Kumar Singh
School of Health and Social Development, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125, Australia

Abstract


This article undertakes a human rights impact assessment of Total Sanitation Campaign which was launched to eliminate the practice of open defecation and block the fecal-oral transmission of diseases. Overall this program has been found to be sound from the human rights perspective; however, there are some implementation issues which can restrict the human rights of the people, especially, the right to health.

Keywords


Human Rights, Health Policy, Sanitation

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