A toolkit for costing environmental health services in healthcare facilities.

Environmental health services (EHS) are critical for safe and functional healthcare facilities (HCFs). Understanding costs is important for improving and sustaining access to EHS in HCFs, yet the understanding of costs is poor and no tools exist to specifically support costing EHS in HCFs in low- and middle-income countries. We developed a toolkit to guide the following steps of costing EHS in HCFs: defining costing goals, developing and executing a data collection plan, calculating costs, and disseminating findings.

Budgeting for Environmental Health Services in Healthcare Facilities: A Ten-Step Model for Planning and Costing.

Environmental health services (EHS) in healthcare facilities (HCFs) are critical for safe care provision, yet their availability in low- and middle-income countries is low. A poor understanding of costs hinders progress towards adequate provision. Methods are inconsistent and poorly documented in costing literature, suggesting opportunities to improve evidence.

Evaluation of Hand⁻Dug Wells in Rural Haiti.

Water resources, especially safe, potable water, are limited for many Haitians. In areas where shallow groundwater is available, many household water needs such as laundry, bathing, and cooking are supplied by hand⁻dug wells. In order to better understand the water quality and prevalence of these household wells, 35 hand⁻dug wells were surveyed and sampled near the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer in Deschapelles, Haiti.