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Despite the global resolve to ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation, several … people across the world still have very limited or no access to basic drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services …
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sanitation practices in a manner that focus mostly on understanding and breaking the various chains and channels of diseases … transmission pathways. Such efforts paid off and led to significant breakthroughs in drinking water supplies and sanitation … framework for understanding complex environmental health issues arising from water supplies and sanitation practices in Africa …
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This article investigates the impact of piped water supply and sanitation on health outcomes in urban Yemen using a … separate identification of water and sanitation impacts. Results indicate that access to piped water supply worsens health …
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, we use the newly available data set DLHS-3 to quantify the impact of access to improved sanitation on diarrheal morbidity … sanitation reduces the risk of contracting diarrhea by 2.2 percentage points. There is considerable heterogeneity in the impacts … of improved sanitation. We neither fi nd statistically signi cant treatment effects for children in low or middle …
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This paper examines the impact of drinking water quality and sanitation behavior on child health in rural districts of … methods to quantify the impacts of water quality and sanitation behavior on diarrhea incidence among children under five years … desired health benefits of sanitation. To protect rural households from the risk of contracting communicable diseases …
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Worldwide, India has the highest number of people defecating in the open. In an attempt to reduce number of open defecation, a supply side initiative is underway. In 2014-2015, Government of India, constructed 8 million toilets. However, an important aspect for this supply-side initiative to...
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health insurance could mitigate vulnerability to poverty. Other challenges-birth control policy, adequate sanitation …
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) and increase sanitation investments in Nigeria. The results of a cluster-randomized control trial in 246 communities …
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