Contextual factors and motivations affecting rural community sanitation in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review

Abstract

Unsafe management of human faecal waste represents a major risk for public health, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Efforts to improve sanitation conditions are considerably sensitive to contextual specifics of natural and social environments.

This review operationalises, analyses, and synthesises evidence of how contextual factors and motivations affect different sanitation outcomes with a specific focus on community approaches to rural sanitation.

Keywords

• community sanitation
• context
• intervention
• motivations
• systematic review
• rural sanitation