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Sanitation, disease, and nutritional status (Freeman, 2017)

ID: 
UWSR029
Full title: 
The impact of sanitation on infectious disease and nutritional status: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Author(s): 
Freeman et al.
Publication date: 
Sunday, January 1, 2017
Maps: 
Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Evidence Gap Map: 2020 update
Confidence Level: 
Low
Number of Impact Evaluations : 
171
Regions: 
East Asia and Pacific
Latin America and the Caribbean
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa
Population: 
Rural
Urban
Slum (informal settlement)
Interventions: 
Direct hardware provision
Health messaging
Direct provision with health messaging
Participatory psychosocial triggering (e.g. CLTS)
Subsidies and microfinance
Health messaging with systems-based approaches
Psychosocial triggering with systems-based approaches
Outcomes: 
Diarrhoeal disease
Other water-related infections
Anthropometry and anaemia
Type of technology: 
Sanitation: latrines for communal use
Sanitation: latrines for household use
Sanitation: safe waste disposal system
Combined water supply and sanitation (WSS)
Combined hygiene with water and/or sanitation

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