Relationship between Diarrhea and Environmental Health as Well as Behavioral Habits of Rural Residents in Sichuan

Objectives To understand the relationship between diarrhea and drinking water sanitation as well as health habits of rural residents in Sichuan Province, and provide a scientific basis for reducing the incidence of diarrhea of rural residents via certain measures.

Methods According to the national rural environmental health monitoring work plan (2018), a total of 5 195 households in 52 counties were randomly stratified selected, collecting diarrhea, drinking water, domestic sewage, garbage, toilets and manure treatment, and monitoring the density of rodents, flies and cockroaches in the kitchen. Then, collect incidence of other infectious diarrhea in Sichuan Province and analyze the influencing factors of diarrhea incidence.

Results For rural residents in Sichuan Province, the household proportion of diarrhea was 4.5% and the incidence of diarrhea was 1.5%. The OR value of finding cockroaches and flies in the kitchen were 1.451 and 1.582, respectively.

Conclusions The influencing factors of diarrhea of rural residents inclcuding:drinking raw or undis infected water, domestic sewage discharge via open ditch, sewage discharged in treatment plants or place not fixed, finding cockroach, rodents or flies in the kitchen, and excrement discharged into the ponds directly. It is recommended to strengthen health education, increase residential health literacy, and improve environmental sanitation so as to reduce the incidence of diarrhea.