Environmental Sanitation

Cleaning and maintaining the environment helps create conditions where disease cannot easily spread. Sanitary environments are presented as a necessary foundation before more complex disease-control interventions are implemented. Living spaces should be made unfavorable to disease spread before addressing individual pathogens or outbreaks. Basic cleaning and improvement of the physical environment should be completed before other interventions can work effectively. Environmental cleanliness is presented as the foundational first step in disease prevention efforts. Environmental cleanliness is presented as the essential first step in preventing disease. Cleaning affected areas is described as a primary public health priority.