Impact on childhood mortality of interventions to improve drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) to households: systematic review and meta-analysis
Abstract:Background In low- and middle-income countries (L&MICs), the biggest contributing factors to the global burden of disease in childhood are deaths due to respiratory illness and diarrhoea, both of which are closely related to use of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services. However, current estimates of the health impacts of WASH improvements use self-reported morbidity, which may fail to capture longer-term or more severe impacts. Moreover, reported mortality is thought to be less prone to bias. This … Show more
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