water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services is low, with particularly dramatic shortfalls among the poorest and rural … dwellers, but a pervasive lack of truly safe services even among wealthier and urban households. Water contamination is common … even among households with access to piped water in major urban areas, and nearly universal in the rural areas surveyed by …

Better hygiene and access to drinking water and sanitation will accelerate progress toward two millennium development … (hand washing) and sanitation (latrines) have more impact than drinking water quality on health outcomes, specifically … people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation". Meeting the latter goal will require …

In Tanzania, the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) has been supporting the Government of Tanzania in 10 districts to … standardized, systematic monitoring system to track sanitation and hygiene conditions in Tanzania. Manually generated reports are … hygiene and sanitation at the household level. The registers have been introduced by local government at the sub-village level …

plays a key role in stopping transmission; just washing with water has little or no effect. Studies have shown that …

-specific interventions, but also exploring costs for a selected number of nutrition-sensitive interventions implemented outside of the health …-fortification of cassava, aflatoxin control, school-based deworming, and school-based promotion of good hygiene. Overall, these … health, social protection, education, and agriculture sectors. …

"Aid to developing countries has largely neglected the population-wide health services that are core to communicable …'s exposure to disease through measures such as implementing health and sanitary regulations. They complement the clinical … coherent public health regulations in countries where donors have long been active, facilitating the spread of diseases such as …

"The authors examine the effects of the introduction of Vietnam's health insurance (VHI) program on health outcomes …, health care utilization, and non-medical household consumption. The use of panel data collected before and after the … biases due to inappropriate specification of the outcome regression model. The authors' results suggest that Vietnam's health …