Background Assessments of disease burden are important to inform national, regional, and
global strategies and to guide investment. We aimed to estimate the drinking water …

Background To develop updated estimates in response to new exposure and exposure-
response data of the burden of diarrhoea, respiratory infections, malnutrition …

Objective To estimate the burden of diarrhoeal diseases from exposure to inadequate water,
sanitation and hand hygiene in low‐and middle‐income settings and provide an overview of …

The 2010 global burden of disease (GBD) study represents the latest effort to estimate the
global burden of disease and injuries and the associated risk factors. Like previous GBD …

Comment 1470 www. thelancet. com Vol 398 October 23, 2021 face of growing evidence of
their insufficiency distracts from the central challenge of building national systems capable of …

Background An alarming number of public health-care facilities in low-income and middle-
income countries lack basic water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH), and waste management …

Abstract Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has a rapidly growing urban population, with water,
sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services representing the central needs for this population …

In the formulation of rational risk management policies, policy-makers increasingly rely on
estimates of the disease burden attributable to certain risk factors. Decisionmakers consider …

The disease burden from unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene (WSH) is estimated at the
global level taking into account various disease outcomes, principally diarrhoeal diseases …

Safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) are fundamental to improving
standards of living for people. The improved standards made possible by WASH include …