access to piped water or sanitation, and traced out the benefits to children, including surviving children, over time. …I review the evidence on access to water and sanitation infrastructure and child outcomes In Latin America. I show that … areas. Many papers in the public health literature show associations between access to clean water sources or improved …

We investigated the impacts of piped water on water quality, sanitation, hygiene and health outcomes in marginalized … group of households to identify gains in water-sanitation, hygiene and health outcomes. We found that the BMDA piped water … health benefits, such as decreased diarrhea incidence of in under-five children, improved child anthropometrics stunting …

children's environment and may play a significant role in shaping early childhood developmental and health outcomes. Using data …Access to essential infrastructure services such as water, sanitation, and garbage collection can considerably affect … from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) and the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for 18 countries in Latin …

-year-old children. Using a unique mix of household data, microbiological test results and spatial information from urban … water pollution and health outcomes. The analysis consists of three parts: First, exogenous variation of pipe construction … is used to quantify the health impact of access to piped water, which is found to increase the risk of child diarrhea by …

Empirical studies on the effectiveness of aid to the water, sanitation, and hygiene sector (WASH aid) have focused … importance of WASH services for public health outcomes, the effectiveness of WASH aid should also be evaluated in terms of its … impact on health outcomes. This is especially important in low- and middle-income countries where achieving sustained …

safe water and sanitation facilities as measures to improve child health. … Philippines. Partly to address this problem, the government has undertaken programs to expand access to safe water and sanitation … facilities, especially among poor households. To assess the impact of such interventions on child health, we apply propensity …

Poor household water supply and sanitation can affect maternal and newborn health outcomes through several pathways … (IFLS), we investigate the relationship between water and sanitation and outcomes along the course of a pregnancy - health … due to poor quality sanitation. Using data on 14,098 pregnancies across four rounds of the Indonesian Family Life Survey …

health and nutrition than the existence of sanitation infrastructure. Finally, irrigation is not per se a detrimental factor …In 2010, the United Nations General Assembly recognized access to safe water and sanitation infrastructure a matter of … safe and affordable drinking water and adequate sanitation by 2030, in a gender equitable way. Progress towards these …

Health constitutes a fundamental aspect of our well-being. It is also a key factor in determining our contribution to … market and non-market output. Health inequality refers to the unequal realization of health outcomes between different groups … in the population. Systematic disparities in health outcomes and in access to health resources not only undermine basic …

-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the … children. In addition, we find evidence consistent with a channel that the policy improved the women's intrahousehold … bargaining power within the household, leading to improved parental investments for children. These study findings are also …