17 Facts About Open defecation

Open defecation is the human practice of defecating outside rather than into a toilet.

High levels of open defecation are linked to high child mortality, poor nutrition, poverty, and large disparities between rich and poor.

Therefore, eliminating open defecation is thought to be an important part of the effort to eliminate poverty.

The countries where open defecation is most widely practiced have the highest numbers of deaths of children under the age of five, as well as high levels of undernutrition, high levels of poverty, and large disparities between the rich and poor.

Open defecation in developed areas is considered to be a part of recreational outdoor activities such as camping in remote areas.

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Practice of open defecation is strongly related to poverty and exclusion particularly, in the case of rural areas and informal urban settlements in developing countries.

The figures on open defecation used to be lumped together with other figures on unimproved sanitation but are collected separately since 2010.

Negative public health impacts of open defecation are the same as those described when there is no access to sanitation at all.

Open defecation—and lack of sanitation and hygiene in general—is an important factor that cause various diseases; the most common being diarrhea and intestinal worm infections but typhoid, cholera, hepatitis, polio, trachoma, and others.

Adverse health effects of open defecation occur because open defecation results in fecal contamination of the local environment.

Open defecation was found by the WHO in 2014 to be a leading cause of diarrheal death.

Those countries where open defecation is most widely practiced have the highest numbers of deaths of children under the age of five, as well as high levels of malnourishment, high levels of poverty, and large disparities between rich and poor.

Open defecation is badly affecting the health of children and their life quality as it creates health and psychological issues.

Efforts to reduce open defecation are more or less the same as those to achieve the MDG target on access to sanitation.

Community-Led Total Sanitation campaigns have placed a particular focus on ending open defecation by "triggering" the communities themselves into action.

Examples of using this type of toilet to reduce open defecation are the "MoSan" toilet or the urine-diverting dry toilet promoted by SOIL in Haiti.

In certain jurisdictions, open or public defecation is a criminal offense which can be punished with a fine or even imprisonment.