Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) investments are widely seen as essential for
improving health in early childhood. However, the experimental literature on WASH …

Background Estimates of the effectiveness of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)
interventions that provide high levels of service on childhood diarrhoea are scarce. We …

Objectives To assess whether the joint effects of water and sanitation infrastructure, are
acting antagonistically (redundant services preventing the same cases of diarrhoeal …

The failure to provide safe drinking water and adequate sanitation services to all people is
perhaps the greatest development failure of the 20th century. The most egregious …

Abstract Each year, more than 300,000 children in India under the age of five years die from
diarrheal diseases. Clean piped water and improved sanitation are known to be effective in …

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 …

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the disease burden attributable to unsafe water and poor
sanitation and hygiene in China, to identify high-burden groups and to inform improvement …

Background Despite continued national and international efforts, access to improved water
and sanitation remains limited in many developing countries. The health consequences of …

Objectives The impact on diarrhoea of sanitation interventions has been heterogeneous. We
hypothesize that this is due to the level of prevailing faecal environmental contamination and …

This paper combines 172 Demography and Health Survey data sets from 70 countries to
estimate the effect of water and sanitation on child mortality and morbidity. The results show …