Accelerating Action on Hygiene and Health for All
The Hygiene and Health Report 2020-2021
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Essity and WSSCC foreword
Collaboration for positive change
This report is a collaboration between Essity and the UN-hosted Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC). We are highlighting two themes - how hygiene and health can save and improve lives and how all of us collectively can contribute to more inclusive societies. The right action can improve hygiene and health conditions globally and benefit both individuals and society. We invite you to take part in this important mission.
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Calls for action
to save and improve lives
The time is now to accelerate action on basic hygiene and good health to prevent infections, such as healthcare associated infections and viruses. Essity and WSSCC highlights Calls for actions to help overcome the hygiene and health challenges and build on the opportunities addressed in the report. Prioritizing and investing in hygiene and health, for example by raising standards and secure ownership, is vital.
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Calls for action
on more inclusive societies
In this decade of action Essity and WSSCC call on policy makers to consider a number of Calls for action on more inclusive societies. Together we promote more inclusive societies by breaking barriers on stigmatized issues such as menstruation and incontinence. In order to ensure that large groups of people can participate fully in society it is equally important is to recognize the opportunities that innovation and digitalization brings, for example in person-centered care.
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Accelerating Action on Hygiene and Health for All
The Hygiene and Health Report 2020-2021
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The COVID-19 pandemic is also a wake-up call to re-focus on what is essential for preventive health. The pandemic has underlined the importance of the fundamental practices learned since childhood, such as handwashing with soap, in promoting basic hygiene to combat infections all around the world. Sue Coates Executive Director a.i. WSSCC
We continue to advance knowledge and facilitate solutions in order to support more inclusive societies and break barriers to health and well-being. We invite you to take part in this important mission. Magnus Groth, President and CEO Essity