What Works in Fighting Diarrheal Diseases in Developing Countries? A Critical Review

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dc.creatorZwane, Alix Peterson
dc.creatorKremer, Michael
dc.date2012-03-30T07:12:32Z
dc.date2012-03-30T07:12:32Z
dc.date2007-03-01
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T01:24:02Z
dc.descriptionThe Millennium Development Goals call for reducing by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water. This goal was adopted in large part because clean water was seen as critical to fighting diarrheal disease, which kills 2 million children annually. There is compelling evidence that provision of piped water and sanitation can substantially reduce child mortality. However, in dispersed rural settlements, providing complete piped water and sanitation infrastructure to households is expensive. Many poor countries have therefore focused instead on providing community-level water infrastructure, such as wells. Various traditional child health interventions have been shown to be effective in fighting diarrhea. Among environmental interventions, handwashing and point-of-use water treatment both reduce diarrhea, although more needs to be learned about ways to encourage households to take up these behavior changes. In contrast, there is little evidence that providing community-level rural water infrastructure substantially reduces diarrheal disease or that this infrastructure can be effectively maintained. Investments in communal water infrastructure short of piped water may serve other needs, and may reduce diarrhea in particular circumstances, but the case for prioritizing communal infrastructure provision needs to be made rather than assumed.
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dc.identifierWorld Bank Research Observer
dc.identifier1564-6971
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/4402
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1596/4402
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/417744
dc.publisherWorld Bank
dc.relationWorld Bank Research Observer
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectbreastfeeding
dc.subjectclinics
dc.subjectfamilies
dc.subjecthealth education
dc.subjecthealth interventions
dc.subjecthealth research
dc.subjecthepatitis a
dc.subjecthygiene
dc.subjectimmunization
dc.subjectinfectious diseases
dc.subjectintervention
dc.subjectmortality
dc.subjectnutrition
dc.subjectnutrition education
dc.subjectprimary schools
dc.subjectrandomized controlled trials
dc.subjectscreening
dc.subjectsodium
dc.subjectvaccination
dc.subjectwaste
dc.titleWhat Works in Fighting Diarrheal Diseases in Developing Countries? A Critical Review
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.typeArticle de journal
dc.typeArtículo de revista

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