Bibliographic citations
Alfaro, P., (2009). Estudio cuanti-cualitativo de prácticas de higiene en familias carentes de sistema de agua y desagüe en Lima Metropolitana, Perú 2003 [Tesis, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/1340
Alfaro, P., Estudio cuanti-cualitativo de prácticas de higiene en familias carentes de sistema de agua y desagüe en Lima Metropolitana, Perú 2003 [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; 2009. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/1340
@phdthesis{renati/487897,
title = "Estudio cuanti-cualitativo de prácticas de higiene en familias carentes de sistema de agua y desagüe en Lima Metropolitana, Perú 2003",
author = "Alfaro Fernández, Paul Rubén",
publisher = "Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos",
year = "2009"
}
The Study has as frame the extension of cover of the Service of Water and Sewage system of Lima with cooperation of the World Bank, through Program of Water and Cleaning - PAS and implemented by the Association Rural Educative Services. The primary target is to describe and to analyze the practices and perceptions of hygiene in the population beneficiary of the project of Extension of Metropolitan Cover of SEDAPAL of Lima. The character of the study is qualitative and quantitative; in the analysis it applies to the approach epidemiologist to identify the factors that act like barrier in the contamination of the water and foods; and the social anthropological approach to explain the reasons and perceptions of the population. The results of the study indicate that the families are integrated by an average of 5 people, 93% of women in charge of the home is in average 35 years old and the 50,6% has a degree of secondary at least. 55% of houses has sand floor, 57, 3% walls of “maderba” (a type of wood) or “tripley” and 59% calamine ceiling. They use in average 2 rooms which are occupied by 3 people in average, 90% has radio and TV. 83% counts on latrine and 15,8% uses open field. According to the conditions of hygiene: 59% of the latrines has lee presence and papers, 50% has scents and vectors; 80% eliminates the children’s excrements through the sweepings; 88% of the people who clean the latrines, are women. The factors that influence in the construction or nonconstruction of latrines are the investment cost, the perception of “dirt” of lees in the houses, the idea that the lees of the children are not “dirty” and the limited access of information on construction.
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