Effectiveness of a rural sanitation programme on diarrhoea, soil-transmitted helminth infection, and child malnutrition in Odisha, India: a cluster-randomised trial

Clasen, Thomas; Boisson, Sophie; Routray, Parimita; Torondel, Belén; J. Bell, Melissa; Cumming, Oliver; H. J. Ensink, Jeroen; C. Freeman, Matthew; W. Jenkins, Marion; Odagiri, Mitsunori; Ray, Subhajyoti; Sinha, Antara; Suar, Mrutyunjay; Schmidt, Wolf‐Peter

doi:10.1016/s2214-109x(14)70307-9

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Effectiveness of a rural sanitation programme on diarrhoea, soil-transmitted helminth infection, and child malnutrition in Odisha, India: a cluster-randomised trial

Published in The Lancet Global Health • Oct 9, 2014

Authors:

Thomas Clasen

Sophie Boisson

Parimita Routray

Abstract

BACKGROUND: A third of the 2·5 billion people worldwide without access to improved sanitation live in India, as do two-thirds of the 1·1 billion practising open defecation and a quarter of the 1·5 million who die annually from diarrhoeal diseases. We aimed to assess the effectiveness of a rural sani...

Subject

Latrine

Sanitation

Open defecation

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