Developing health education in the latrine program in Songkhla Province, Thailand

Includes bibliographical references (pages 56-60)In Thailand, community health committees are usually made up of males, who are the recognized head of several families in a particular village. Housewives have never served on health development committees dealing with environmental sanitation, especially latrine programs. In the rural areas, women usually follow their husbands, they have never been given the leading role in the community. They do not participate in any activities in the village. They stay at home and take care of the children. This program proposes that the pattern of participation be changed. A Housewives' Committee dealing with a latrine program is described. The most important activity of the latrine program is to create a positive attitude toward health which will improve the health behavior of the housewives and their children by construction and use of the sanitary latrine