Associating State of Water and Sanitation with Childhood diarrhoea: Anomalies and Contradictions
Information on safe water, sanitation and hand washing obtained in large scale surveys are used to validate its responsiveness to childhood ailments. Definition of these variables are uniform to enable comparison within and across countries and devoid of the context and circumstance. Associating the...
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| description | Information on safe water, sanitation and hand washing obtained in large scale surveys are used to validate its responsiveness to childhood ailments. Definition of these variables are uniform to enable comparison within and across countries and devoid of the context and circumstance. Associating these variables with prevalence of diarrhoea overlooking the context seem to distort the relationship and lead to spurious results. An empirical verification of such an association in an Indian context based on the most recently conducted NFHS-4 data set brings to the fore apparent contradictions that cautions on the use of these variables as they are obtained. It calls for a redefinition of these variables prior to verifying their responsiveness to childhood diarrhoea as illustrated here. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-72c684cd5d194cda87605aae8a17855a2023-04-05T13:04:14ZengCambridge University PressExperimental Results2516-712X2020-01-01110.1017/exp.2020.9Associating State of Water and Sanitation with Childhood diarrhoea: Anomalies and ContradictionsBevin Vijayan0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5674-6563Udaya Mishra1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3900-0342Brian Williamson2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9041-5952PhD Scholar, Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum-695011, Kerala, India. Email:PhD Scholar, Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum-695011, Kerala, India. Email: Professor, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum-695011, Kerala, India.University of Bolton, Mathematics, School of Engineering, University of Bolton, Bolton, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, BL3 5ABInformation on safe water, sanitation and hand washing obtained in large scale surveys are used to validate its responsiveness to childhood ailments. Definition of these variables are uniform to enable comparison within and across countries and devoid of the context and circumstance. Associating these variables with prevalence of diarrhoea overlooking the context seem to distort the relationship and lead to spurious results. An empirical verification of such an association in an Indian context based on the most recently conducted NFHS-4 data set brings to the fore apparent contradictions that cautions on the use of these variables as they are obtained. It calls for a redefinition of these variables prior to verifying their responsiveness to childhood diarrhoea as illustrated here.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2516712X2000009X/type/journal_articleAnomaliesHand washingHealthSanitationWater |
| spellingShingle | Bevin Vijayan Udaya Mishra Brian Williamson Associating State of Water and Sanitation with Childhood diarrhoea: Anomalies and Contradictions Experimental Results Anomalies Hand washing Health Sanitation Water |
| title | Associating State of Water and Sanitation with Childhood diarrhoea: Anomalies and Contradictions |
| title_full | Associating State of Water and Sanitation with Childhood diarrhoea: Anomalies and Contradictions |
| title_fullStr | Associating State of Water and Sanitation with Childhood diarrhoea: Anomalies and Contradictions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Associating State of Water and Sanitation with Childhood diarrhoea: Anomalies and Contradictions |
| title_short | Associating State of Water and Sanitation with Childhood diarrhoea: Anomalies and Contradictions |
| title_sort | associating state of water and sanitation with childhood diarrhoea anomalies and contradictions |
| topic | Anomalies Hand washing Health Sanitation Water |
| url | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2516712X2000009X/type/journal_article |
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