Soap significance

Pneumonia and diarrheal diseases are the two leading causes of death among children under five every year , there are more than 3.5 million children in the world because of diarrhea and pneumonia can not celebrate their fifth birthday soap , wash your hands with soap could save millions of children lives. Also wash your hands can prevent skin infections, eye infections, intestinal parasites , SARS and avian flu , cancer patients and people living with HIV in health benefits.
Soap for all countries and impact modifier  communities in both technical and economic whatever life-saving interventions. Advance the measure , not only because of its healthy , but also because people feel comfortable with soap , can reflect a person's social status , education , hand allows more intimate between people .
After using the toilet , scrub ass to the child after hand contact with food before , these three cases , we must use soap or hand sanitizer .
Soap benefits
Hand washing is the cornerstone of public health , new health behaviors and public health services are infectious disease mortality in the late 19th century rapid decline in rich countries a major factor . And fecal isolation and safe handling, as well as providing a sufficient plastic flame retardant  amount of pure water , like washing hands with soap or hand sanitizer is the prevention of diarrheal disease is one of the most effective ways ( can reduce infection rate half ) , it is also the cheapest way . In addition, handwashing with soap can limit the spread of respiratory disease ( reduced infection rate quarter ) . Moreover, with soap or hand sanitizer is also strong against other diseases barrier ( such as worms , eye infections such as trachoma , skin infections such as impetigo ) .
Soap costs
Handwashing with soap is the most inexpensive health intervention . Disability -adjusted life years (Disability-Adjusted Life Years, DALYs) is the loss of life through an integrated soap costs and the number of years of life lost in disability status to measure the  chromium oxide number of years the burden of disease and the effectiveness of health interventions . Obviously, handwashing with soap is the return of diarrhea-related DALYs most effective method. Handwashing expenditure was significantly lower than immunization , such as: a need to invest DALY cost of measles immunization  between . This is not to say that vaccination is not necessary, but merely pointed out that , due to the general lack of investment to promote hand-washing , we missed a surprising number of ways to use the cheapest life-saving opportunities. Most of the world has affordable family soap, so the cost is not a significant reason for people to wash their hands with soap .