Abstract: Water is a basic component of humans accounting to majority of body mass. But the water we sip comes from a chemically-treated source, whereas a large number of public still uses deep wells as their drinking water. This study aimed to determine the implementation of Water Sanitation Program (WSP) of the Department of Health in six Rural Health Units in Cabanatuan City as this encompasses public health concern wherein diarrheal diseases and dehydration still conclude as leading causes of mortality in the Philippines up to date. Quantitative design was employed, specifically descriptive-correlation method. A two-part questionnaire was the main tool which was subjected to pilot testing. Items were self-constructed in guide of the Philippine National Standards for Drinking Water of 2007 and PD 856 or the Code of Sanitation. It was found out that health workers and the said families describe WSP’s provision of approved water supply facilities, access to safe and potable drinking water, water quality and monitoring surveillance, and waterworks and well construction as effective since their responses were verbally-described as often. Health education about Halazone tablets, proper distancing of deep well to likely source of contamination and regular bacteriological analysis of drinking water were found to be inadequate. Correlation analysis revealed that health care workers’ length of service (p=0.6725) and age (p=0.5366) have strong significant relationship with their roles on the implementation of WSP while health care workers gave their performances higher descriptions than the family-respondents.
Keywords: deep well, water sanitation, drinking water, water quality, potable water.
Title: WATER SANITATION PROGRAM: HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL AND FAMILIES’ PERCEPTION
Author: Nicanor M. Domingo III, Rouneil D. Dela Cruz
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
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