Household illness and associated water and sanitation factors in peri-urban Lusaka, Zambia, 2016–2017

Autor: Joan Brunkard, Warren Malambo, Jennifer L. Murphy, Elizabeth Chizema-Kawesha, Florence Kabinga Mwale, Bishwa B. Adhikari, Eric D. Mintz, Gordana Derado, Martin I. Meltzer, Andrew Thornton, Seonghye Jeon, Sunkyung Kim, Manjunath B. Shankar, Sydney C. Hubbard, Valerie D. Bampoe, Lauren C. Cunningham
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: npj Clean Water, Vol 3, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2020)
ISSN: 2059-7037
Popis: In Zambia limited access to adequate water and sanitation is a key developmental challenge, particularly for rapidly expanding peri-urban areas. During 2016–2017, a cross-sectional household survey was conducted among 12,500 households representing ~60,000 individuals to assess the burden of household diarrheal and respiratory disease and to measure water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) characteristics in Lusaka, Zambia. We found that socio-economic factors, including having an additional household member, having children E. coli and households consuming less water (
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