While the first order effects of access to clean water and of personal hygiene and sanitation on health have been well … households' socioeconomic status. That is, there is a large health externality of a household's hygiene and sanitation. In the … presence of such health externality of households' hygiene and sanitation, which is strongly associated with the access to safe …

evidence on how public health emergencies have negatively affected socioeconomic development pathways well beyond the crisis … potato-suitable areas after 1900. Our results highlight the interplay between technological change, public health, and …

Prenatal care is an essential segment of maternal health-care. In this paper an attempt has been made to examine the … sufficient iron supplementation respectively has been taken from Indian Demographic and Health Survey (IDHS) 2005-6. To estimate … into individual characteristics of the woman, household characteristics, health-related characteristics, community …

Basic sanitation and hygiene can prevent roughly a million deaths a year. This study examines the rapid prototyping of … a pilot school-based handwashing, safe water, and sanitation program in Chennai, India. Our content analysis identified … commitment), factors outside the class but within the school (School administration and support and Hygiene and sanitation …