Estimating effects of improved drinking water and sanitation on cholera

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2013

Abstract

Demand for adequate provision of drinking-water and sanitation facilities to promote public health and economic growth is increasing in the rapidly urbanizing countries of the developing world. With a panel of data on Asia and Africa from 1990 to 2008, associations are estimated between the occurrence of cholera outbreaks, the case rates in given outbreaks, the mortality rates associated with cholera and two disease control mechanisms, drinking-water and sanitation services. A statistically significant and negative effect is found between drinking-water services and both cholera case rates as well as cholera-related mortality rates. A relatively weak statistical relationship is found between the occurrence of cholera outbreaks and sanitation services. © IWA Publishing 2013.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Journal of Water and Health

First Page

671

Last Page

683

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