Objective To assess the impact of inadequate water and sanitation on diarrhoeal disease in
low‐and middle‐income settings. Methods The search strategy used C ochrane L ibrary …

About 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation, and 1 billion have no access to
any form of sanitation (UNICEF 2013). About 780 million people lack access to an improved …

Background Across low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), one in ten deaths in
children younger than 5 years is attributable to diarrhoea. The substantial between-country …

Background Quantification of the disease burden caused by different risks informs
prevention by providing an account of health loss different to that provided by a disease-by …

Background Diarrhea remains a leading cause of mortality among young children in low-
and middle-income countries. Although the evidence for individual diarrhea prevention and …

Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) are foundational public health interventions for
infectious disease control. Renewed efforts to end open defecation and provide universal …

Globally, no countries are on track to achieve the adopted global nutrition targets set for
anemia in 2025. Given the linkages between water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and …

Background Exposure to faecal contamination is believed to be associated with child
diarrhoea and possibly stunting; however, few studies have explicitly measured the …

Children need WASH–water, sanitation and hygiene–to survive and thrive. This is true in
times of stability and crisis, in urban and rural communities, and in every country around the …

Background The Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factor study 2013 (GBD
2013) is the first of a series of annual updates of the GBD. Risk factor quantification …