Healthy living means looking after ourselves and our environment, preventing diseases and following good health and hygiene rules. "Living Health" readers focus on important health topics worldwide. Each book contains a story followed by a factfile of information and actvities, all based on a health theme. The series is graded into four language levels, with controlled language in both the story and fact file. This book features the story of the school choir who have to find shelter for the night when their bus breaks down. The farm is great, but their teacher finds the latrine is very dangerous. The accompanying factfile - sanitation - discusses the need for good sanitation and health hazards that arise from poor sanitation. It also looks at different types of latrines and how they can be built and used hygienically.

 

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 1997 by Macmillan Education .

This book has the following chapters: Before you read; the plastic throne; fact file - sanitation; human waste; diseases spread through faeces; sanitation makes sense; sanitation solutions; wash your hands; things to do; word list, answers and useful addresses