Question

Explain the relationship between sanitation and disease.

Answer 1

Disease:

It is a structural or functional disorder in an organism eliciting specific symptoms with deteriorating effects.

Sanitation:

1. Sanitation is the act of maintaining healthy conditions in public places such as drinking clean water, sewage treatment, etc.
2. It helps in maintaining a sterile public environment.

Importance of sanitation:

1. Maintaining a high degree of sanitation helps in keeping the spread of various dangerous infectious diseases under control.
2. Refraining from defecating in the open helps to stop the spread of most common roundworm diseases via the feces of infected people.
3. Hence, sanitation, and the spread of disease are interdependent as a shortfall of sanitation can lead to a health hazard by the spread of infectious diseases.