Sufficient supply of potable water, hygiene facilities, and sanitation are major factors
enhancing healthy living. Using the dataset from the 2018 South Africa General Household …

The Global Burden of Disease is a major global study on the causes and risk factors for
death and disease published in the medical journal The Lancet. 1 These estimates of the …

Background Water and sanitation access are known to be related to newborn, child, and
maternal health. Our study attempts to quantify these relationships globally using country …

Background Millions of people carry water home from off-plot sources each day and lack
improved sanitation. Research on the health outcomes associated with water fetching is …

Safe drinking-water is essential to sustain life–it is the basis for human health, survival,
growth and development. Therefore, access to safe drinking-water is a basic human right …

Shortages of water could become a major obstacle to public health and development.
Currently, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization …

Objectives The objective of this study was to investigate the quality of on‐plot piped water
and rainwater at the point of consumption in an area with rapidly expanding coverage of …

Waterborne disease remains one of the major health concerns in the world. Diarrhoeal
diseases, which are largely derived from contaminated water and inadequate sanitation …

Objectives. To estimate the population lacking at least basic water and sanitation access in
the urban United States. Methods. We compared national estimates of water and sanitation …

The World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF),
through the Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP), are responsible for global monitoring of the …