Cho Eun-Ra, Kim Kyoung-Lee
Institute of French Culture and Regional Studies, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea.
Asia Contents Institute, Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea.
Iran J Public Health. 2025 Apr;54(4):801-809. doi: 10.18502/ijph.v54i4.18418.
We explored the perceptions, value, and social visibility of public toilets by comparing the implementation of public restrooms at the 2020 and 2024 Olympics. We specifically examined how sociocultural factors influenced restroom policies and development.
We conducted a survey of the history of public toilets as a form of public hygiene management in Japan and France during the Olympics. The analyses compare Paris's eco-friendly and Tokyo's culture-oriented approaches.
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics demonstrated how public restrooms can promote cleanliness and hygiene. However, the 2024 Paris Olympics adopted a practical, eco-friendly approach in response to the climate crisis. Thus, the public restrooms in both cities provided novel examples of public health policies, integrating scientific and cultural perspectives.
Although Tokyo successfully implemented its sanitation culture in its public restrooms, challenges related to sustainability remained. In Paris, the perceptions of public restrooms have not yet been fully addressed. Nevertheless, the innovative approaches of both cities are expected to yield constructive outcomes for the 2028 Games, demonstrating the future value of such policies.
我们通过比较2020年和2024年奥运会公共卫生间的实施情况，探讨了公共卫生间的认知、价值和社会能见度。我们特别研究了社会文化因素如何影响卫生间政策和发展。
我们对奥运会期间日本和法国将公共卫生间作为公共卫生管理形式的历史进行了调查。分析比较了巴黎的环保方法和东京的文化导向方法。
2020年东京奥运会展示了公共卫生间如何促进清洁和卫生。然而，2024年巴黎奥运会为应对气候危机采取了实用的环保方法。因此，两个城市的公共卫生间都提供了将科学和文化视角相结合的公共卫生政策的新范例。
尽管东京在其公共卫生间成功实施了其卫生文化，但与可持续性相关的挑战依然存在。在巴黎，对公共卫生间的认知尚未得到充分解决。尽管如此，两个城市的创新方法预计将为2028年奥运会产生建设性成果，展示此类政策的未来价值。
