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Environnement sanitaire de l’enfant dans la region centrale du Togo
Abstract
Objective: To Determine the sanitary and socio-educational environment of the child less than five years in the central region of Togo.
Method: A descriptive survey led simultaneously in the five districts of this region on a sample of 983 households in care of 733 children less than five years has been carried from March 29 to April 08, 2004.
We had to study the socio-demographic aspects mainly including the living conditions, drainage work and the practices in relation with child's physical, mental and social development.
Results: The investigated householders were farmers (56.7%), illiterate (53.6%) and aged from 30 to 49 years (47.6%). With two or three persons by room and seven by household the domestic environment was marked by promiscuity. Out of the 733 children, 52% of boys, 48% of girls, 27% were aged less than one year and 21.6% from 12 to 23 months. Non drinking water was used by 67.4% of households, nature was taken for lavatory (68.1%) and household refuse and waste water were put in domestic dumping grounds
(49.8%). Only 2.7% of the children were sent to school. The early-learning games (36.5%) and games of skill (26.9%) were the most used traditional means for children’s education. Drubbing was the most
current punishment of children (51.2%) and laziness and unruliness were the most frequent motives for it (47.2%).
Conclusion- This living environment of the child in the central region of Togo, marked by a weak domestic income, promiscuity, lack of drinking water, faecal peril, pollution and insufficiencies of sanitary education, appeared not very propitious to child's physical, mental and social development, but favourable to various pathologic outbreaks mostly targets of the strategy of PCIMNE
Method: A descriptive survey led simultaneously in the five districts of this region on a sample of 983 households in care of 733 children less than five years has been carried from March 29 to April 08, 2004.
We had to study the socio-demographic aspects mainly including the living conditions, drainage work and the practices in relation with child's physical, mental and social development.
Results: The investigated householders were farmers (56.7%), illiterate (53.6%) and aged from 30 to 49 years (47.6%). With two or three persons by room and seven by household the domestic environment was marked by promiscuity. Out of the 733 children, 52% of boys, 48% of girls, 27% were aged less than one year and 21.6% from 12 to 23 months. Non drinking water was used by 67.4% of households, nature was taken for lavatory (68.1%) and household refuse and waste water were put in domestic dumping grounds
(49.8%). Only 2.7% of the children were sent to school. The early-learning games (36.5%) and games of skill (26.9%) were the most used traditional means for children’s education. Drubbing was the most
current punishment of children (51.2%) and laziness and unruliness were the most frequent motives for it (47.2%).
Conclusion- This living environment of the child in the central region of Togo, marked by a weak domestic income, promiscuity, lack of drinking water, faecal peril, pollution and insufficiencies of sanitary education, appeared not very propitious to child's physical, mental and social development, but favourable to various pathologic outbreaks mostly targets of the strategy of PCIMNE
