Val Curtis
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Val Curtis's Degrees
- PhD Medical Entomology London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Valerie Curtis was a British scientist who was Director of the Environmental Health Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. This is a multidisciplinary group dedicated to improving hygiene, sanitation and water in households and schools through enhancing knowledge.
Val Curtis's Published Works
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Published Works
- Effect of washing hands with soap on diarrhoea risk in the community: a systematic review. (2003) (1261)
- Burden of disease from inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene in low- and middle-income settings: a retrospective analysis of data from 145 countries (2014) (862)
- Evidence that disgust evolved to protect from risk of disease (2004) (701)
- Water, sanitation and hygiene for the prevention of diarrhoea (2010) (633)
- Dirt, Disgust, and Disease: Is Hygiene in Our Genes? (2001) (544)
- Disgust as an adaptive system for disease avoidance behaviour (2011) (521)
- Handwashing and risk of respiratory infections: a quantitative systematic review (2006) (496)
- Planned, motivated and habitual hygiene behaviour: an eleven country review (2009) (486)
- Review: Domestic hygiene and diarrhoea – pinpointing the problem (2000) (394)
- Systematic review: Hygiene and health: systematic review of handwashing practices worldwide and update of health effects (2014) (388)
- Systematic review: Assessing the impact of drinking water and sanitation on diarrhoeal disease in low‐ and middle‐income settings: systematic review and meta‐regression (2014) (375)
- Achieving the 'good life': why some people want latrines in rural Benin. (2005) (300)
- Hand washing for preventing diarrhoea. (2008) (232)
- Domestic hygiene and diarrhoea - pinpointing the problem. (2000) (231)
- The Effect of Handwashing with Water or Soap on Bacterial Contamination of Hands (2011) (226)
- Effect of a behaviour-change intervention on handwashing with soap in India (SuperAmma): a cluster-randomised trial. (2014) (220)
- Hygiene: new hopes, new horizons (2011) (217)
- Formative Research on Hygiene Behaviors and Geophagy among Infants and Young Children and Implications of Exposure to Fecal Bacteria (2013) (212)
- Infection-avoidance behaviour in humans and other animals. (2014) (187)
- Structured observations of hygiene behaviours in Burkina Faso: validity, variability, and utility. (1993) (187)
- Evidence of behaviour change following a hygiene promotion programme in Burkina Faso. (2001) (184)
- Experimental pretesting of hand-washing interventions in a natural setting. (2009) (183)
- Potties, pits and pipes: explaining hygiene behaviour in Burkina Faso. (1995) (168)
- Health in our hands, but not in our heads: understanding hygiene motivation in Ghana. (2007) (166)
- Dirt, disgust and disease: a natural history of hygiene (2007) (154)
- Behaviour change for better health: nutrition, hygiene and sustainability (2013) (141)
- Comparing the performance of indicators of hand‐washing practices in rural Indian households (2008) (137)
- Harnessing behavioural science in public health campaigns to maintain ‘social distancing’ in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: key principles (2020) (132)
- Three kinds of psychological determinants for hand-washing behaviour in Kenya. (2010) (129)
- Behaviour Centred Design: towards an applied science of behaviour change (2016) (128)
- Why disgust matters (2011) (127)
- The effect of a soap promotion and hygiene education campaign on handwashing behaviour in rural India: a cluster randomised trial (2009) (126)
- Hygiene in the home: relating bugs and behaviour. (2003) (120)
- The Anatomy of Motivation: An Evolutionary-Ecological Approach (2013) (117)
- Is hygiene promotion cost‐effective? A case study in Burkina Faso (2002) (115)
- Reactivity and repeatability of hygiene behaviour: structured observations from Burkina Faso. (1996) (102)
- Determinants of handwashing practices in Kenya: the role of media exposure, poverty and infrastructure (2009) (100)
- Child defecation behaviour, stool disposal practices, and childhood diarrhoea in Burkina Faso: results from a case-control study. (1994) (87)
- Dirt and diarrhoea: formative research in hygiene promotion programmes. (1997) (83)
- Ethics in public health research: masters of marketing: bringing private sector skills to public health partnerships. (2007) (82)
- Hard to handle: understanding mothers' handwashing behaviour in Ghana. (2007) (76)
- Talking dirty: how to save a million lives (2003) (76)
- Trial of a Novel Intervention to Improve Multiple Food Hygiene Behaviors in Nepal (2017) (74)
- The determinants of handwashing behaviour in domestic settings: An integrative systematic review. (2020) (72)
- From Joint Thinking to Joint Action: A Call to Action on Improving Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene for Maternal and Newborn Health (2014) (68)
- Women and the Transport of Water (1986) (59)
- Hygiene: how myths, monsters, and mothers-in-law can promote behaviour change. (2001) (53)
- Evolution of pathogen and parasite avoidance behaviours† (2018) (53)
- Household expenditure on malaria prevention and treatment for families in the town Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. (1994) (52)
- Water, sanitation, and hygiene at Kyoto (2003) (51)
- Hygiene intervention reduces contamination of weaning food in Bangladesh (2012) (50)
- Setting Research Priorities to Reduce Mortality and Morbidity of Childhood Diarrhoeal Disease in the Next 15 Years (2013) (50)
- Gaining Control: How human behavior evolved (2015) (50)
- Multiple behaviour change intervention for diarrhoea control in Lusaka, Zambia: a cluster randomised trial. (2016) (48)
- The structure and function of pathogen disgust (2018) (43)
- Prevalence and risk of HIV infection among female sex workers in Burkina Faso (1998) (43)
- Dirty hands: bacteria of faecal origin on commuters' hands (2009) (42)
- Illness in childhood predicts face preferences in adulthood (2013) (41)
- A new strategy for treating nets. Part 2: Users' perceptions of efficacy and washing practices and their implications for insecticide dosage (1999) (40)
- Prolonged breast-feeding: no association with increased risk of clinical malnutrition in young children in Burkina Faso. (1993) (39)
- Design of an Intervention to Minimize Ingestion of Fecal Microbes by Young Children in Rural Zimbabwe (2015) (35)
- Implications of WASH Benefits trials for water and sanitation. (2018) (34)
- Can gossip change nutrition behaviour? Results of a mass media and community‐based intervention trial in East Java, Indonesia (2016) (33)
- The Determinants of Reported Personal and Household Hygiene Behaviour: A Multi-Country Study (2016) (32)
- Implementing effective hygiene promotion: lessons from the process evaluation of an intervention to promote handwashing with soap in rural India (2014) (31)
- The 5 Star Toilet Campaign: improving toilet use in rural Gujarat (2020) (30)
- Formative research on the feasibility of hygiene interventions for influenza control in UK primary schools (2009) (29)
- Kinds of behaviour (2008) (29)
- Disgust Sensitivity Is Not Associated with Health in a Rural Bangladeshi Sample (2014) (29)
- Explaining the outcomes of the 'Clean India' campaign: institutional behaviour and sanitation transformation in India (2019) (28)
- Sensor recorded changes in rates of hand washing with soap in response to the media reports of the H1N1 pandemic in Britain (2011) (27)
- Costs of diarrhoea and acute respiratory infection attributable to not handwashing: the cases of India and China (2017) (27)
- Don't Look, Don't Touch, Don't Eat: The Science Behind Revulsion (2013) (27)
- Are the pathogens of out-groups really more dangerous? (2012) (26)
- Editorial: Can we afford to overlook hand hygiene again? (2013) (25)
- Don't Look, Don't Touch: The science behind revulsion (2013) (25)
- A natural history of hygiene. (2007) (24)
- The dangers of dirt: household hygiene and health. (1998) (24)
- Effect of a behaviour change intervention on the quality of peri-urban sanitation in Lusaka, Zambia: a randomised controlled trial. (2019) (24)
- Behaviour settings theory applied to domestic water use in Nigeria: A new conceptual tool for the study of routine behaviour. (2019) (21)
- Theory-driven formative research on on-site, shared sanitation quality improvement among landlords and tenants in peri-urban Lusaka, Zambia (2018) (19)
- Theory-based formative research on oral rehydration salts and zinc use in Lusaka, Zambia (2016) (17)
- Effect of a School-Based Hygiene Behavior Change Campaign on Handwashing with Soap in Bihar, India: Cluster-Randomized Trial (2018) (17)
- Health in your hands: lessons from building public-private partnerships for washing hands with soap (2002) (14)
- Evaluation of a behavior-centered design strategy for creating demand for oral PrEP among young women in Cape Town, South Africa (2020) (13)
- Theory-driven formative research to inform the design of a national sanitation campaign in Tanzania (2019) (12)
- Evaluation of a behavior-centered design strategy for creating demand for oral PrEP among young women in Cape Town, South Africa. (2020) (12)
- Biochemical indicators of subsurface pollution (1980) (12)
- Male commuters in north and south England: risk factors for the presence of faecal bacteria on hands (2011) (11)
- Public-private partnerships for health : a review of the best practices in the health sector (2003) (11)
- Disentangling the effects of a multiple behaviour change intervention for diarrhoea control in Zambia: a theory-based process evaluation (2017) (11)
- Social marketing for urban sanitation (2001) (11)
- Exploring the potential of antimicrobial hand hygiene products in reducing the infectious burden in low-income countries: An integrative review. (2016) (10)
- ‘Unfit for human consumption’: a study of the contamination of formula milk fed to young children in East Java, Indonesia (2017) (10)
- How to set up government-led national hygiene communication campaigns to combat COVID-19: a strategic blueprint (2020) (10)
- The social dynamics around shared sanitation in an informal settlement of Lusaka, Zambia (2018) (9)
- [Clinical profile of cryptosporidiosis in a pediatric hospital environment in Burkina Faso]. (1998) (9)
- [Perinatal mortality in Burkina Faso: risk factors in an urban environment of Bobo-Dioulasso]. (1991) (9)
- Comparison of structured observation and pictorial 24 h recall of household activities to measure the prevalence of handwashing with soap in the community (2018) (9)
- Disgust as an adaptive system for disease avoidance behaviour (2011) (7)
- Cluster-randomised trial to test the effect of a behaviour change intervention on toilet use in rural India: results and methodological considerations (2020) (7)
- Eff ect of a behaviour-change intervention on handwashing with soap in India (SuperAmma): a cluster-randomised trial (2014) (6)
- [Acute respiratory infections in pediatric hospital at Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso)]. (1994) (6)
- Hygiene promotion in Burkina Faso. (1998) (6)
- Social marketing for Urban Sanitation: Review of evidence and inception report (revised edition) (2002) (6)
- Changing the World for the Better (2015) (5)
- A cluster-randomised trial to evaluate an intervention to promote handwashing in rural Nigeria (2020) (5)
- Bednets and malaria. (1998) (5)
- Water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions: an urgent requirement in post-flood Nepal. (2017) (4)
- Complementary Food Hygiene: An overlooked opportunity in the WASH, nutrition and health sectors (2015) (4)
- Using a theory-driven creative process to design a peri-urban on-site sanitation quality improvement intervention (2019) (4)
- Food Hygiene Practices of Rural Women and Microbial Risk for Children: Formative Research in Nepal (2021) (3)
- How does handwashing behaviour change in response to a cholera outbreak? A qualitative case study in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2022) (3)
- Accentuate the positive — promoting behaviour change in Lucknow's slums (1997) (3)
- Food hygiene practices of mothers and level of contamination in child's food in Nepal: a formative research (2013) (2)
- Strategic Thinking in a Pandemic: A Blueprint for Government-Led National Hygiene Communication Campaigns to Combat COVID-19 (2020) (2)
- The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignác Semmelweis, Sherwin B Nuland. WW Norton (2003), 191 pp; US$21·95, ISBN: 0 393 05299 0 (2004) (1)
- Prelims - Women and the Transport of Water (1986) (1)
- How is hygiene behaviour affected by conflict and displacement? A qualitative case study in Northern Iraq (2022) (1)
- Psychometric Analysis of a Postulated Set of Evolved Human Motives (2021) (1)
- Mapping Motivations: Evolutionary Health Promotion (2007) (1)
- Studying hygiene behaviour - where are we now? (1995) (1)
- Unintentional behaviour change (2014) (1)
- Who's in control: the power of settings | Val Curtis | TEDxLSHTM (2015) (1)
- Manner mayks man: on manners and hygiene (2013) (0)
- Beliefs and practices: diarrhoeas and hygiene practices in Burkina Faso (1994) (0)
- Structured observations ofhygiene behaviours inBurkina Faso:validity, variability, andutility (1993) (0)
- Hand hygiene innovation for low income households in India (2020) (0)
- Archaeological Monitoring Plan for Soil Sampling at Hickam Air Force Base, O`ahu, Hawai`i (2001) (0)
- Archaeological Monitoring Plan for Bellows Perimeter Fenceline Project, Bellows Air Force Station (2001) (0)
- Archaeological Monitoring for Soil Sampling in Conjunction with Military Housing Replacement Hickam Air Force Base (2002) (0)
- Archaeological Monitoring Plan for Aircraft parking Area Floodlight Installation, Hickam Air Force Base (2001) (0)
- Archaeological Monitoring Plan for Transformer Replacement Ft. Kamehameha Historical District (2001) (0)
- Archaeological Monitoring and Sampling in Conjunction with Transformer Replacement Projects, Fort Kamehameha Historic District (2002) (0)
- Archaeological Monitoring and Sampling in Conjunction with Force Protection Fence Installation Bellows Air Force Station (2002) (0)
- Theory-driven formative research to support development of a pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) demand creation campaign among young women in a South-African township (2022) (0)
- Archaeological Monitoring in Conjunction with Repair and Upgrade of Sewer Lines, Hickam Air Force Base (2002) (0)
- Archaeological Monitoring Plan for Repair and Upgrade of Sewer Lines, Hickam Air Force Base (2002) (0)
- THE INCIDENCE ANDCOSTS OF CHILD DIARRHOEA IN BOBO-DIOULASSO, BURKINA FASO: P 242 (1996) (0)
- PCN3 AN ANALYSIS OF OUTPATIENT SERVICE UTILIZATION FOR DELAYED NAUSEA AND VOMITING USING ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS (2006) (0)
- Clinical Decision Rule for Ordering Liver Function Tests in ED Patients with Abdominal Pain (2002) (0)
- Archaeological Monitoring Plan for Fence and Gate Installation Near Building 3004, Hickam Air Force Base (2002) (0)
- Natural Kinds of Behavior (2015) (0)
- Social marketing for sanitation: opportunities and challenges (2001) (0)
- STEM and our future transportation leaders. (2016) (0)
- Innovation in Formative Research and Intervention Design to Change Infant Feeding Practices in East Java (2015) (0)
- HEALTHMONITORINGANDREPORTING: MAINTAINING AND IMPROVING THE EVIDENCE-BASE - (2015) (0)
- 9. Water Transport and Storage (1989) (0)
- Living in the Moment (2015) (0)
- [Diarrheic diseases in children. Rationalization of fecal test]. (1993) (0)
- Web seminar: Behaviour change (2012) (0)
- Theory-driven formative research to inform the design of a national sanitation campaign in Tanzania - Household Interview Guide (2019) (0)
- Formative research on hygiene behaviors and geophagy as part of interventions to improve infant growth (2012) (0)
- Imagining the Future (2015) (0)
- Archaeological Monitoring Plan for Fort Kamehameha Waterline Replacement, Hickam Air Force Base (2002) (0)
- 1 KINDS OF BEHAVIOUR (2008) (0)
- ITN programmes fail because lake of consideration of the susceptibility of Culex quinquefasciatus to insecticides. (1998) (0)
- Hygiene promotion: evidence of efficiency and affordability from Burkina Faso (2002) (0)
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