How valuable are environmental health interventions? Evaluation of water and sanitation programmes in India

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate and quantify the economic benefits attributable to improvements in water supply and sanitation in rural India. METHODS: We combined propensity-score “pre-matching” and rich pre-post panel data on 9500 households in 242 villages located in four geographically different district...

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Main Authors: Subhrendu K Pattanayak, Christine Poulos, Jui-Chen Yang, Sumeet Patil
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862010000700013&lng=en&tlng=en