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

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

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 san...

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Main Authors: Prof. Thomas Clasen, PhD, Sophie Boisson, PhD, Parimita Routray, PhD, Belen Torondel, PhD, Melissa Bell, MSc, Oliver Cumming, PhD, Jeroen Ensink, PhD, Matthew Freeman, PhD, Marion Jenkins, PhD, Mitsunori Odagiri, MSc, Subhajyoti Ray, PhD, Antara Sinha, MSc, Mrutyunjay Suar, PhD, Wolf-Peter Schmidt, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-11-01
Series:The Lancet Global Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X14703079

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