Preventing Diarrhoea Through Better Water Sanitation and Hygiene

Download or read book Preventing Diarrhoea Through Better Water Sanitation and Hygiene written by World Health Organization and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early 2013 WHO convened an expert group of scientists from 14 collaborating research institutions to update theassessment of the burden of diarrhoeal disease from inadequate water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and to reassessthe effectiveness of WASH interventions. This group considered evolving and alternative methods for assessing theburden of disease and agreed on a rigorous new approach using meta-regression. In deriving the new figures theexperts incorporated the latest data on use of improved water and sanitation with minor adjustments and drew uponthe results from two new global.